Poll: Do you think you pay too much of taxes to the Federal Gov? (wages, millionaires)
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Hollywood Harvey Weinstein, a Obama supporter now wants a tax break. They want special exemptions from the same tax nightmare that they push on other Californians.
Oh, and while you're at it ... perhaps you can explain why, if Hauser's Law says we "must" collect 18% of GDP, that the U.S. actually collects 27% of GDP? Shouldn't that be a warning sign that your so-called "law" is inaccurate?
Which OMB table are you looking at that says 27%? Federal receipts as percentage of GDP historical was the one I was using, since that's the one the deficit is computed from.
That makes no sense. If they spend money in an asinine way, then that would explain a high amount. It sounds to me that you're just trying to take your antipathy for living in a society with others and how that rationally implies that society will do things (including spend money on things) that you personally don't care about, and make it sound like something more significant than it is. That "social conscience versus antisocial" dichotomy is a legitimate difference of perspective in our society. Why do folks who support the antisocial side of the conflict feel the need to hide their view in such a misdirection?
All government wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars isn't spent on programs that one side or the other supports. Here are a few. Tell me which of these spending items that I think are wasteful, you wholeheartedly support for the benefit of society:
A contractor sold $27 electronic relays to the government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve for between $484 and $521 apiece.
The Pentagon spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.
Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.
Washington recently spent $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.
The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades.
Two drafting errors in the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act resulted in a $2 billion taxpayer cost.
Congress gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.
Washington spends $60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.
$7.8 billion of Iraq aid cannot be accounted for. More than $13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen.
uh.. no , my view is that the national debt is not a problem
It might not be as much of a problem as long as the U.S. maintains a policy of ZIRP. But that necessarily robs the middle class and retirees of net worth and retirement income.
It might not be as much of a problem as long as the U.S. maintains a policy of ZIRP. But that necessarily robs the middle class and retirees of net worth and retirement income.
Higher interest rates would create a higher national debt
But as i've said, the national debt doesn't matter much in the first place .. so again, it isn't very important.
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problem solved
