Barely 60% of Working Age Adults paytaxes - wtf?

[striperman36]

and all the retired politico's with their kiss in the mail

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

Don't forget all those people on Welfare and other forms of government assistance that you are also supporting since they are paid for by YOUR tax $.

I don't mind some of my tax dollars helping people when they are down bu I have a problem with those hat perpetually keep themselves down. I'd much rather be putting money to the kids "C" fund than to pay for people abusing services or shirking responsibility.

Originally Posted by striperman36

and all the retired politico's with their kiss in the mail

Their pension and health benefits are certainly taken care of...

[scottw]

I guess we've revised the 80/20 rule...I'm pretty sure that someone once warned that the Republic would collapse when we reached a point where the number of folks not paying into the system but able to vote themselves increased benefits from the system exceeded the number actually supporting the our system....

[Raven]

you trade your SKILLS for a service rendered
or you sell a product for X amount of dollars

but when the Government steps in and takes half of your
earnings

and then doesn't deliver the services they said they would provide
and are threatening to take even more

people eventually say......hey ya know what..... F-them
THIS is no longer an "equitable trade" anymore

so i believe, you have to L(o)(o)k at it that way ALSO

not strictly from the "i'm supporting the non tax payers"
ANGLE.

[Raven]

the TAX dollars...................

are not solely staying in AMERICA....

just helping Americans or the American infrastructure

they are being given away to PAKISTAN
and many other non American countries
and fighting wars that the "government"
deems necessary ....

just imagine how wonderful things would be in
America if all those tax dollars were only spent
on AMERICANS and AMERICA

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Raven

the TAX dollars...................

are not solely staying in AMERICA....

just helping Americans or the American infrastructure

they are being given away to PAKISTAN
and many other non American countries
and fighting wars that the "government"
deems necessary ....

just imagine how wonderful things would be in
America if all those tax dollars were only spent
on AMERICANS and AMERICA

Correct, but there is a catch. If US money is not spent overseas in many cases it may cost more American blood & treasure in the long run. This is not to say the Guv has been right more often than not but they try.

What concerns (pisses) me is we spend ungodly amounts domestically and some of these programs may collapse in the future. Hell our economy and way of life has the potential to collapse. We're may be close to the tipping point. A nation in decline.

[Raven]

But as a Nation in Decline

we have to move back closer to Isolationism

because it is as out of *control now ..............*out of balance
as is

plover preservation