ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-22-11 03:15 PM
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My version of why Federal taxes are "so high"
Notice I said this is "my version" of why Federal taxes are as hight as they are. Its perfectly fine to disagree.
The reason Federal taxes are as high as they are is because the Federal Government is forced to provide services that properly would be provided by the States, but that at the State level politicians are absolutely unwilling to tax their own people enough to pay for the services they demand.
It is the Republicans who most often exploit this and the Tea Baggers can't seem to absorb it.
From education to food inspection, from public transportation to environmental protection, there is a myriad of services that the Federal Government provides vast amounts of funding to do things that the states should already be doing for their own people - but are not. The States won't take responsibility for those (and other) problem areas and they won't tax their own people to address them. Instead they rely on the Feds to pay. And what is so absurd about it is that in many cases they then complain about the high rate of Federal taxation and federal involvement in local matters while they spend the money the Fed hands down.
They love their "State's Rights" but they have no intention of assuming "State's Responsibilities". Our problem has never been over spending, it has always been under taxation.
If the States are unwilling to tax their people to pay for the services that the people require then they have no business disparaging the Federal Government for taking on the task, and they particularly have no business then saying that what the Federal Government is doing is not among the enumerated powers and thus the State's responsibility.
Then they add insult to injury by trying to cut the rates of Federal taxation, which is used to pay for the services for which they are responsible but won't provide, to a level too low to cover providing for their own people and will then use the degradation of services as ammunition for further cuts. Its as if the whole damned world has been turned upside down and shook real hard 'till its brain rattled loose and fell to ground to be eaten by the great dog gods.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x942068Oh now the federal govt is forced to be the nanny state.
Here's a crazy idea DUmmy. How about if we expect people to figure out ways to take care of themselves. People used to be smart enough to figure that out. For those who are truly on hard times they can turn to churches and charities, if that fails some help from the local govt wouldn't be a horrible thing.
The root of the problem is, the left convinces people that they need the democrats to feed, clothe, and give them high speed internet.
They keep hearing how only the rich can make it, so they don't even try. They just sit back open their hands and wait for the next freebie the democrats will give them. Our govt assistance doesn't do a damn thing to lift people out of poverty, they subsidize poverty.
They throw them just enough to barely get by on, and promise them more if only they vote the right way.
You DUmmies thought the war in Iraq was a quagmire, meanwhile the war on poverty hasn't done a damn thing to fight poverty.
