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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'm telling you Tony...we are overtaxed and it's not for building roads and helping people. It's for war.
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Robbie, first off, i'm not hassling you. Just want to get that out of the way.
I agree with half your statement. I don't believe for a second that we're overtaxed. See my previous post about tax rates in the '50s and '60s.
However, I agree 100% that our allocation of resources is completely out of whack, especially when it comes to war. These wars we are in are completely for money. Money for corporations.
The defense budget is about $900 Billion a year. About $180bil is for the VA, so let's leave that out. That leaves $720bil to fund 2 wars started under false pretenses. Let's cut that number in half. $360bil/year would still leave us with an incredibly strong military.
Can you all imagine the great things we could do here at home with the other $360bil/year??? As you say, roads, helping people etc. I'll add education to that as our educational system has been consistently gutted over the last 30 years. Without the H1B visa program, our lead in science would be gone overnight because our own kids have been getting a progessively sub-par education for a generation.