Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4...
by chrisabrams on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:56PM
(#13330771)
> Personally every time I look at my pay statement the taxes sting badly. However, I think the more interesting discussion to have is, "what are we spending money on?"
As a self-employed libertarian I think the same thing :O
I think most of the services that are offered through the government are noble or necessary..I disagree that it should be the government that runs many of them.
If instead there was a list that said, "Here is the amount of money that went to each of the major federal departments", maybe people would say, "really? that's cheap!" or "really? we spend that much on defense???" Who knows, but they'd be better informed.
As I recall to a rough first approximation only about 1/5 of government spending isn't Defense, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. That's the first thing to keep in mind when talking about deficits, taxation and priorities.
Personally every time I look at my pay statement the taxes sting badly. However, I think the more interesting discussion to have is, "what are we spending money on?"