HarveyJ

Overall, welfare takes up SFA of a federal budget... Why do people who always bitch about tax assume it always gets spent on welfare?
Do you people have any idea how expensive it is just to maintain essential infrastructure like roads? Bitchumen & Tarmac cost approximately $25m^2... More for elevated works... How much road is there in the US?

If you use hospitals, got an education, have ever had to call the emergency services (police, fire or ambulance) or just drive anywhere EVER, you should pay taxes. Period.
Perhaps not as much as you currently are, because the ultra rich get away with spending a lot less than they should...
It just means Government needs to get tighter on upper-class tax-shelters. i.e Kerry Packer, Australian media mogul that wasn't Murdoch, was proud of paying only about $3k a year in tax... He earned about $90m a year....

22% of the USA GDP went on the combined military budget in 2007 (potentially a lot more if you count the Iraq fiasco, but that's technically "Foreign Affairs"). Welfare was 12.7% according to Wiki... Yet you never hear tax-whiners say "Oh, we need to cut the military budget" because they're always the same idiots who have "Support the Troops" stickers on their bumpers.
Support the Troops~!? You know what would support the troops? Some decent fucking veterans welfare like post traumatic medical and psychological care, and maybe a decent pension for those that never managed to become commissioned officers.
You know what else wastes millions of dollars? An electoral system based on popularity, instead of party policy, and a head of state that can veto laws that cost millions of dollars to get off the ground, unless 66% of all representatives agree with it...

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