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Would you send them any money out of your own pocket beyond your tax money?
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What guarantee is there that the federal government won’t squander that money the way they do every tax dollar they seize from Americans’ paychecks? Until that is in place, anyone would be a total idiot to contribute to anything like that.
But Warren Buffet should take your advice on his 18% tax return…. he could contribute a lot more than most and he’s the one crying about not getting taxed enough. Bill Clinton too……
I pay enough and see nothing in return. My roads are crap, my schools are falling apart, healthcare is declining, and yet the people who are in the military corporate complex are getting richer off our taxes. And, so are the oil, coal and nuclear energy corporations. No, I won’t pay anymore but they sure should along with the other billionaires in this country who pay less in percentage of their individual income taxes than I do as a middle class citizen.
Yes.
Bill Clinton is mad because he wanted to pay more taxes.
(He never thought about just sending the IRS some extra.)
Democrats always want Some One Else to pay more taxes.
I’d love to reduce the national debt, but there isn’t a snowball’s chance in Panama that I’m gonna give the Fed a bent penny more than I’m required to by law.
Of course Congress (which controls the federal pursestrings) won’t do a damn thing about it either, as it would cut out to many pork barrel projects or alienate some constituency or cause a big uproar in the media.
28th Amendment anyone?
My meager budget won’t do any good when the government loses millions of dollar bills in Iraq and gives tax breaks to the oil companies.
Not until we have someone responsible in the White House.
nope I sure dont. we have had a national debt since just after the start of the country and it will NEVER go away. I want the economy to grow faster than the interest which makes our grandchildren richer with the same debt burden or slightly less.
example. if you have $100,000 and you owe $10,000 are you in more, less or the same debt burden than someone who has $100 and owes $10.
Then if you have $100,000 and you invest $50,000 into your savings account say you get 5% return you net 2500 and you pay say an interest of 2% of 10,000 = 200 therefore you gained $2300 therefore you are now richer than before with less Debt burden.