Romney Fundraiser - Secret Taping
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PearlWatson
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I think the % of people who work for the government is more of a problem than the percentage who don't pay income tax.
There are a whole buttload of liberals who have cushy government jobs.
There are a whole buttload of liberals who have cushy government jobs.
TheSilencer1313
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Not the case when it comes to myself, and most others I know that are either work part time, are unemployed, or haven't been able to find work for months.
We all have much in common, but people with money are so comfortable with their lives, that they haven't seen these problems come to fruition yet.
Case and point, I don't believe in higher taxes for the rich.
In fact, I don't believe in a federal income tax at all.
My experience is that there are a lot of people in government jobs who lean Republicans and complain about the government spending and interfering with the free markets. They should do the honorable thing, quit, and go work for McDonalds or somethin, dam hypocrites.
TheSilencer1313
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It doesn't matter how much oil prices come down.
Most gasoline is now 10 percent ethanol, and with the corn belts in drought for most of the summer, gasoline will go down for a minute and then go right back up.
That being said, I'm sure prices will come down a little strictly for the elections.
So how do you propose paying for roads, parks, schools, firemen, policemen, teachers, townhalls, politicians, EPA, NSA, CIA, Army, Navy, Marines, Airforce, soclal workers, tax collectors, dogcatchers, United Nations, farmer subsidies, tax assessors, Congress, President, Unversities, hospitals, ballparks, sewage systems, bridges, water systems, and other stuff government does?
TheSilencer1313
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More than half of what you listed is already paid for by state a local taxes, and has nothing to do with the federal income tax.
The other half....
EPA gone, NSA gone, subsidies gone, (congress used to be a part time thing).
We pay for the U.N?
We pay for Universities, and hospitals? I sure hope not.
You're lumping a lot of different types of taxes together. You need separate out what federal income taxes pay for and then redo your list.
TheSilencer1313
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Ok, will do.
States get lots of their revenues from state income taxes, and transfers from the Federal government, so I don't see your distinctions as all that crucial. The point is, do you want to eliminate everything government does, and if not, how do you want to fund it? We've discussed this before I am sure, probably not worth rehashing.
TheSilencer1313
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Paid for by local taxes:
Local roads, local parks, firemen, policemen, townhalls, local politicians, dogcatchers, hospitals to a point, ballparks, sewage systems, bridges, water systems.
Paid for by state taxes:
State roads, state parks, state representatives, social workers, hospitals to a point, ballparks to a point, sewage systems, bridges, water systems.
Eliminated due to the abolition of federal taxes:
EPA, NSA, CIA, (the military comes home, and a war tax is instituted in the event that we become involved in one), tax collectors, farmer subsides, tax assessors.
Paid for privately:
United Nations, universities.
Jobs that didn't use to hold an actual wage:
Congress and the President.
1/4 is military and 1/4 is health care and about a 1/5 or so goes to low income stuff.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/2011-taxreceipt