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Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters? by grandalf on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:50AM (#10233301)
A very tiny percentage taxes actually pays for things that qualify as infrastructure.

The rest pays for things that are far less transparent and far more corrupt(able), not to mention blatant wealth transfers to influential interest groups.

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Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters? by furytrader on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:20PM (#10234731)
By influential interest groups, do you mean Social Security, Welfare, Medicare and Medicaid? Because that's roughly 60% of Federal spending.
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Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters? by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday September 17, 2015 @04:45PM (#10235944)
Much of which is spent on the over-inflated cost structure of healthcare providers gaming the system.
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