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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I guess I must be nuts -- I don't feel that I am deprived of my wealth after paying my taxes.
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Nobody is talking about you being "deprived of your wealth".
My point is...the U.S. govt. is spending 7 MILLION DOLLARS per MINUTE. That is insane.
Way too much on the military. We have a colossus military, but there is no real war we are fighting. And there is no enemy for all those ships and planes and nuclear missiles and military bases.
If my money were being spent to build roads (which it isn't...state and local taxes AND the national gasoline tax does) or actually fund the local schools (it's not) or help the poor (tiny sliver of it)...then that would be one thing.
But the reality is they are spending 7 million dollars a minute on foreign aid, military spending, congressmen taking trips and having a huge staff and free health care for life, and a monstrosity of bureaucracy as well as corruption and funneling money back to their cronies.
The Federal budget this year (2012) is 2.252 TRILLION dollars! (of which 1.1 trillion is DEFICIT spending).
Think about that. A billion dollars is a thousand million. A trillion is a thousand billion dollars.
There were 42 million total people in poverty in 2010. If you broke that down into families and just assumed that there are 3 people per family on average...that would be 14 million families.
So if you took 2 trillion dollars of this years budget you could just straight out give 2 million families a million dollars each.
Do that for 7 years and you just wiped out poverty and created 14 million Millionaire households.
Sounds crazy...but guess what? Since 1965 when Johnson launched the "War On Poverty" we have spend over 10 TRILLION dollars.
And poverty has went up anyway. Kinda like Nixon's "War On Drugs". lol
My point is that the govt. takes your money and wastes it. They don't get it to the poor people who really need it. First it goes to pay bureaucrats salaries and offices and expenses...then a lot of it gets skimmed through corruption.
I would rather pay just enough taxes for our govt. to just be able to do what it has to do. No more, no less. If our country has decided to help the poor...then let's really do it and not spend one dime more than is needed.
7 million dollars a minute they are spending. Don't you think that's way out of line?