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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Great idea. And you "Pay As You Go" for services that the Government provides for you. 
So when you drive off your your driveway, you pay a toll, and the further you drive, the more it costs. This will cover the cost of building and maintaining the roads. Plus people like Highway Patrols, Paramedic and Firemen in case of violations and accidents. Plus the profit to make the shareholders of the companies happy. |
That line of reasoning is simply horse shit.
It doesn't take TRILLIONS of dollars to pay for a highway or firemen or policemen. Matter of fact in the 1990's President Clinton imposed a gasoline tax that we were told was going to be used for our highways. Of course just like all money... the federal govt. spent it on other shit and still does.
No Paul...paying for things our government is supposed to be doing wouldn't require people to pay much tax at all.
But our govt. taking money from it's own people to give to other countries in foreign aid? Or taking our money and waging wars against countries that did not attack us? Or spending billions on a failed "war on drugs"? Or how about spending millions of dollars on prosecuting baseball players for using steroids? Or the billions and billions in pork barrel spending?
The list goes on and on and on.
I would gladly pay taxes to have our govt. perform the basic functions it is SUPPOSED to do. That ain't what costs all the money.