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Old 03-08-2015, 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Yung Dum View Post
The government does not tax to enrich itself. It taxes to provide for the people of the nation. True, much of this money is ill-spent, but that doesn't qualify as greed. If the greedy paid their fair share of taxes as they did in the 1950's, we may once again have a middle class and a much stronger economy.
How true. The money is not spent the way we would like all the time, but what can we expect when the political parties disagree on just about everything. There is certainly mismanagement at all levels of government, state, federal, and local, but mismanagement is different than greed.