Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Most of the money you pay in taxes is totally wasted by the government, or stolen through fraud. Very very very little goes toward making a real difference, less than 1%. Liberals talk like the government is benevolent or something, when the exact opposite extreme is true.
Not really, no.
40% of US GDP is related to government spending (local, state, federal). The R's talk big about cutting spending but even they can't bring themselves to
actually do it. The "Tea Party" doesn't fully understand the ramifications of how we've set up our currency (debt in reality becomes money, reduce debt you reduce your money supply, reducing economic development).
Taxes at the federal level serve a few purposes 1) a way to control inflation - print too much money (issue debt) and inflation increases. Do too little of it and the economy contracts. 2) Incentivize behavior such as home buying and child rearing.
Look at Japan's issue with an aging/declining population and the methods they are trying to employ to reverse it!
What you'll find is most higher educated, higher earning adults vote Democrat. The Republic base is the lower educated, and poorer areas of our country (just look at the Fox News demographics!). I always laugh when pilots, whom tend to be higher educated and earn more than your average worker (except maybe for the commuter guys) identify with the Republican base.