With you there, except for "federal taxes to pay for local schools". What is your problem with education? This does not compare to anything else you were complaining about.
Re:Bill Gates, Hero
by 2arrs2ells on Thursday September 16, 2010 @01:13AM
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I'm guessing the parent isn't upset about paying taxes for schools, but is upset about the increasing amount of federal control of education (i.e. No Child Left Behind) that has been coupled to the increased amount of federal ed funding.
I'm not rich, and I'm grumpy about what my 20% federal taxes are going to. The financial and GM bailouts, "homeland security", ag subsidies, congressional pork, federal taxes to pay for local schools, "war on terror", "war on drugs".
If the gov't was efficient in the things it did, and did the things I believe it should, I wouldn't complain about my taxes at all. But the combination of being inefficient and misguided is one of the largest wastes of human productivity ever devised.
This is a bigger waste than building the pyramids by hand.