Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
The money the government TAKES from you is used to fund weapons systems that never come to fruition, are delayed, or run well overbudget, it is siphoned for good ideas that aren't, it is used to fund teambuilding events in Las Vegas for bureaucrats. There is so much fraud, waste, and abuse in both the military and the federal government it literally makes me sick. And the reason for it? The entire establishment is too friggin' big.Originally posted by qazplm:
"some of both" Republicans only seem to like one half of the equation.
The money I give to the government provides milk for poor kids, housing for poor moms, job training, and a whole host of other things that society needs to function. "Folks like me" understand that people are more important than money, so giving up some of it is mighty fine.
If folks like you were simply about making government more efficient, and less wasteful, I'd be right there, but you aren't. You are about replacing government with, well, nothing.
Exactly. I'm sure qaz is using every tax advantage to which he's entitled just like the rest of us. But I do wonder why he'd do that when his tax dollars only feed babies and such.Originally posted by CWS:
Just to be clear, you did not "give" the money to government. It was taken from you under force of law with the threat of imprisonment. If you thought the government was the best to use your money, you would have cut an additional check to the US Treasury, knowing that they would use money properly. Instead, you hopefully gave money to other causes and charities. Republicans are not cold-hearted folks who want babies and single moms to die. In fact, they give more money voluntarily than Democrats voluntarily do. It is not charity when it is mandatory.
Posted from wireless.rivals.com
I agree. Logically, we should limit the number of humans involved, rather than involving even more and thus compounding the imperfection and generating more waste at a geometrically increasing rate.Originally posted by qazplm:
do things imperfectly?
That's every human endeavor/entity ever.
Yes, I am quite certain you took advantage of every tax break you could to lower your tax bill. I am certain you didn't pay more Federal income tax than you legally had to. If you did, you did it out of ignorance, not out of the goodness of your heart, which kind of makes you a hypocrite. You should be throwing as much money as possible at the government since you're convinced they feed babies, build roads, and create jobs.Originally posted by qazplm:
I don't "take every tax advantage possible." I make more than enough to be quite happy and have a decent life. I paid this year. Not a ton, but a little. No big deal.
Agree to disagree. They (we) don't waste all of the taxpayers money, but they (we) waste a lot of it. For example, I'd rather opt out of Social Security and have the option to save/invest that money on my own.Originally posted by qazplm:
I don't consider it a "waste" of money to pay my taxes...