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Originally Posted by Guest
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.
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If government agencies would run efficiently we could cut taxes and most likely not have to cut the services they provide. When I was a small business owner the local government agencies I dealt with that were efficient and coming in under budget would always end up on a spending binge at years end to be sure they spent all of their budget so it would not be cut the next year. When I was in the Army Reserve we had a company strength of around 500 but at that time were slightly under 300. Every year we were required to go to the range and practice our M-16 proficiency. They always gave us enough ammunition for 500 which we did not need. After we (the 300 of us) did our required shooting we had quite a bit of ammo left. Would it be returned to the warehouse? Nope. We had 10 of us line up, put the M-16's on auto, and just fire the extra ammo until gone. I could go on and on, and I am sure many of you reading this thread have their own stories to tell. Government and efficiency are rarely together on the same page.