about all of it. they don’t actually use taxes to fund the government since we never spend within our means.
they use taxes to punish behavior they don’t like
americans are ranked dead last to the u.s. government . we’re not top 5 or 10 like communist or dictatorships
we are dead last
VisualSpecial8 on
USAID was just top of the iceberg. Sadly the waste and corruption are eating our country from the inside out. Biggest waste is in 3 areas being
– first bloated bureaucracy apparatus of many government agencies, that have become job programs for party fateful,
– second are entitlements that are getting milked trough fraud,
– third is corruption in Pentagon, that is not able to pass audit for years now.
Uller85 on
Probably 20-30%.
the-realistic-ape on
Plenty, I’m sure, and I’m not one of those purist Libertarians who think all government spending is waste – I mean we need roads, an army and at least a few regulations to stop us from sending kids up chimneys.
A different way to look at it might be to ask how much of what the government spends hurts us? Even wasteful spending, if it’s spent in the US, goes back into American pockets and is churned into the economy. I’d argue that the problem arises when public tax dollars are used to make a few connected people richer at everyone else’s expense and who might take that money offshore…
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How much does the government spend? That much.
about all of it. they don’t actually use taxes to fund the government since we never spend within our means.
they use taxes to punish behavior they don’t like
americans are ranked dead last to the u.s. government . we’re not top 5 or 10 like communist or dictatorships
we are dead last
USAID was just top of the iceberg. Sadly the waste and corruption are eating our country from the inside out. Biggest waste is in 3 areas being
– first bloated bureaucracy apparatus of many government agencies, that have become job programs for party fateful,
– second are entitlements that are getting milked trough fraud,
– third is corruption in Pentagon, that is not able to pass audit for years now.
Probably 20-30%.
Plenty, I’m sure, and I’m not one of those purist Libertarians who think all government spending is waste – I mean we need roads, an army and at least a few regulations to stop us from sending kids up chimneys.
A different way to look at it might be to ask how much of what the government spends hurts us? Even wasteful spending, if it’s spent in the US, goes back into American pockets and is churned into the economy. I’d argue that the problem arises when public tax dollars are used to make a few connected people richer at everyone else’s expense and who might take that money offshore…