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Originally Posted by Robbie
I guess I'm just against the govt. taking our money and then not really being accountable for it. I'm not sure that any of us can say with certainty what the govt. does with our tax money these days. Seems they just spend it like drunken sailors sometimes.
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For the past several years I have been using my mobile phone as my primary means of communication for my home. I finally decided to get a land line so if the family needed to use 911 we could. Instead of depending on the gps in our mobile phones to connect us with the right law enforcement agency. I contacted ATT to get the lowest contract for residential use. I was $10.12 for the month. The bill came this month for the first time. $10.12 as per the contract and an additional $9.37 in government fees, taxes, and surcharges. Needless to say I was a little surprised that the government fees were almost as equal. I contacted an ATT rep wondering were all that additional money in taxes and surcharges went and she had no clue. She replied, "The government just tells us what to collect and we do".
So were does the money go. Same thing with your personal income taxes. Personally I don't mind paying for my share of taxes but when you look at everything you have to pay you want to to see at the very least a direct or indirect benefit to you and society as a whole. Our K-12 education system is failing our youth, our infrastructure is falling apart, so you ask yourself you want to tax me more. Really.
All I know is we need accountability from our elected officials. It is at a point were we need to demand it.