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Originally Posted by Squirrelinabox
Yes, the video says that not a single penny from the income tax goes towards paying for services... oh no! Of course, if you actually pay attention and don't get all fantatical, you notice that they say it all goes towards paying down our debt. Hmm... now how did we get that debt? My guess is by paying for those services they just bitched about.
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The problem is we assume more debt per capita than almost any other country in the world. Our defense bugdget is MULTIPLE times more than anything else we spend money on. Does US really need to have 14 permanent military bases in Iraq, a huge base in Saudi Arabia, and several more in Qatar and UAE? How does that help our citizens? We barely even get any oil from Saudi Arabia, and yet we've kept thousands of soldiers stationed there for decades. This is costing us billions a year.
Not to mention the tax % deducted from your paycheck is significantly higher in US than in other countries.
Anyone who expects the government to regulate itself is definitely ignorant of history.
Maybe the tax system shouldn't be shut down, but there's currently nothing differentiating America from past imperial nations.