I just cant take it anymore. If I have to hear McCain or Rossi or any other Republican whine about taxes, Im going to shoot myself. For decades I have had to endure this idea that taxes are evil and everything would be better if no one paid taxes.
Well what happened to "country first"? What happened to personal responsibility? What the fuck to do people think taxes are?
Do you like roads? Do you like running water in your house or trash collection? Do you like electricity? Do you feel safer with 911 calls or should we fire the police and firemen?
Why dont any politicians get in front of this issue and reframe the argument? Everyone wants more money but would you rather have $100 or all those services? Do you even know how much you actually PAY on taxes?
For that matter, what pays the salaries and health care for Republican politicians? fairy dust? No. Tax dollars pay for their benefits and I dont see our "tax cut" politicians lining up to work for free.
Taxes pay for everything that makes our a pleasant country to live in. Taxes are another way American's put country first. Taxes are an example of how American's are in this together. Paying taxes should be a badge of honor instead we have tacitly agreed that taxes are always to be avoided. We have created a culture of personal greed. Me before We.
These tired Republican arguments that taxes are evil, wink wink, prevent any real dialog or discussion about what we do spend our money on. That is what we should be talking about.
You want a penny to give a crippled person health care or feed a child in school? Well you have to fight a bloody jihad to get money for fellow citizens in need.
You want $100 to give to Wall Street or to buy a useless stealth bomber or give a rich farmer a rebate on corn? No problem, here take $200.
I am sorely disappointed in how our leadership handles this issue of taxes but I hope that things will get bad enough that we start to discuss our real priorities again. I am still waiting for my peace dividend from the end of the Cold War. I'd rather make butter not guns because that is putting country first.
The other aspect of taxes and "country first" is deficit spending. I think there has been 1 single year in the past 25 where the federal government did not spend more than it earned. Every year our nation has dinner and then runs out on the check. We charged up the credit card and then transfered it to our children to pay back.
What kind of traditional family value is that? What kind of fiscal conservative urges you to stop paying taxes and just borrow the money?
Our behavior is outrageous. It is criminal. And it never seems to end!
No we cant cut taxes because we have to pay our fucking bills! Look at this Federal bill we got in the mail -- 30 years of borrowing, mostly for military spending. If you dont like paying taxes, then you should have asked why we were spending so much money all those years.
We have already borrowed $10T and the next administration is going to borrow wheelbarrows more. The only source of income the government has to pay back that spending is taxes.
So wake your brain up and let's start having an adult conversation about taxes and where we should spend money. Its high time we really put "country first."
