Re: Tax Day: True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
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On Apr 16, 5:21 pm, freeisbest <demeter547op...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/a-short-citizens-guide-to_.... . .
Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley
Posted April 15, 2009 | 06:35 PM (EST)
A Short Citizen's Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax
Day
No one likes to pay taxes, so tax day typically attracts a range of
right-wing Republicans, kooks, and demagogues, all of whom tell us how
awful we have it. Here's a short citizen's guide ... responding to the
predictable charges:
The same people who supported the Iraq war, Voodoo economics, and bank
deregulation are now complaining about paying the piper.
I guess that means you love to pay taxes and you love the IRS?
shouldn't everyone ?
Only someone who likes to have someone confiscate their hardearned money.
isn't that what democracy is all about ?
Taxes have nothing to do with democracy. When this democracy was first
formed and for many decades after there was no such thing as an income
tax.
why do you conservatives always want a free ride ?
What free ride?
what would you eliminate ?
About nintety percent of government spending.
the biggest costs to the taxpayer are :
Social Security
Medicare
The military
Medicare and Social Security. Medicare because there is no way to
effectively control the increase in cost as long as the user of the
service is not the one paying for the service. And if there is no
effective way to control cost, costs will rise, which means it will
consume a larger and larger percentage of total government spendning.
Which in turn means that government will not be able to spend money on
their other pet projects, or they will have to increase taxes or the
national debt. And even if they did that, it will still consume a larger
and larger percentage of total government spending. Social Security,
because the government has made promises it cannot possibly keep, and
besides, it does a lousy job of helping those the system was designed to
help and is helping people who don't need the help.
so you would eliminate social security and medicare, and how
do you propose
those millions of people who collect
them would survive ?
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