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Originally Posted by Guest
I am a conservative, but have to disagree, NOT with the point you are trying to make but with your presentation,
Most of those taxes are collected and exist to pay for some government service and what you should do is investigate the history of each to determine why they are actually there.
In addition, many of the taxes you list have an origin at the state level and that even more complicates your research.
I am not a big believer in generalization as I have said many times and while I support a review of spending and taxes, some taxes do not have a terrible history.
We, the people, want services, and those services cost money and have increasing costs. Adding a specific tax is one way to pay for those things.
Point is, we need to have taxes to pay for services we demand from our local, state and federal government. They DO need to be looked at, but we are the ones asking for certain services.
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I wrote it, AND I agree with you. I generalized. The point is not that we are paying taxes, but that we are paying a lot of different taxes. Granted, we have to fund services. But, every time a politician wants to add a new service, he/she also decides to invent a new tax or add on to an existing tax. We do need a review of existing services and decide which ones are really necessary. It's about time to start cutting services. How many billions could be saved if we did some cutting of the unnecessary. We could start with Foreign aid, which is just a drop in the bucket, even though it is in the billions. Wouldn't it be nice/interesting if we could have a popular vote on spending? Bet there would be some interesting cuts to spending.