>It's 83m dollars over 5 years ... Amortized cost per year is 16.6m dollars a year. ... Again, microscopic. I don't think enough people understand the scope of how much money the government has,
"I don't really care, Margaret."[1]
I said earlier that this cost could be one cent, $0.01, and I would still be against it. I don't want my taxes wasted on this bullshit, even good ones, when there are more pressing matters including just erasing the line item all together.
If we can't(won't?) get our expenses in order then I support the reduction or even elimination of taxes even more because Americans should not have to pay for this shit. Any of it. The government can default from the rejection of fiscal responsibility for all I care as a taxpayer, we tried giving a reasonable out many times over. Cutting expenses, especially frivolous ones, is part of Budgeting 101.
I'm not sure what else I can say to hammer this point home, nobody is going to change my mind.
>Yes. Because We the People don't set the budget. We vote represenatives (we vote on 3/535 of them each) who appropriate a budget.
And those Representatives enjoy the most appalling popularity polls year after year. Clearly there's something lost in translation between We The People and "Representative" Democracy and Trump's second victory is a resounding rejection of that failure to convey and represent.
>He has extreme conflicts of interest
Again, "I don't really care, Margaret."[1]
Whatever CoIs he or Trump may have are better than the CoIs of Congressmen or Executive bureaucrats. The state of US governance is that fucking bad as far as I am concerned, I just don't care anymore about being amicable and fine and gentlemanly let alone being perfect.
Burn this entire fucking shithouse down, we'll figure out what to do with the rubble later. We did it before in 1776 and we can do it again as declared in our Declaration of Independence, though ideally with no boomsticks firing and instead more figurative tea dumped into figurative bays, it's the 21st century after all.
"I don't really care, Margaret."[1]
I said earlier that this cost could be one cent, $0.01, and I would still be against it. I don't want my taxes wasted on this bullshit, even good ones, when there are more pressing matters including just erasing the line item all together.
If we can't(won't?) get our expenses in order then I support the reduction or even elimination of taxes even more because Americans should not have to pay for this shit. Any of it. The government can default from the rejection of fiscal responsibility for all I care as a taxpayer, we tried giving a reasonable out many times over. Cutting expenses, especially frivolous ones, is part of Budgeting 101.
I'm not sure what else I can say to hammer this point home, nobody is going to change my mind.
>Yes. Because We the People don't set the budget. We vote represenatives (we vote on 3/535 of them each) who appropriate a budget.
And those Representatives enjoy the most appalling popularity polls year after year. Clearly there's something lost in translation between We The People and "Representative" Democracy and Trump's second victory is a resounding rejection of that failure to convey and represent.
>He has extreme conflicts of interest
Again, "I don't really care, Margaret."[1]
Whatever CoIs he or Trump may have are better than the CoIs of Congressmen or Executive bureaucrats. The state of US governance is that fucking bad as far as I am concerned, I just don't care anymore about being amicable and fine and gentlemanly let alone being perfect.
Burn this entire fucking shithouse down, we'll figure out what to do with the rubble later. We did it before in 1776 and we can do it again as declared in our Declaration of Independence, though ideally with no boomsticks firing and instead more figurative tea dumped into figurative bays, it's the 21st century after all.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7rk8djJek