Phone lines and power lines and equipment are tax generators (look at your next phone and power bills). Unless provided by municipalities which run such things, they are provided by non-govt entitites.
It's not much as cut taxes but reduce spending on stupid stuff (mandatory arabic in Texas public schools...uhm not really needed. Send scholoars to France to study something off the wall, no. Use net meeting. The waste in the NSF is somethign to behold) and properly budget for liabilities according to accounting rules and don't raid the pension or underfund and use the money for more polically expedient reasons. Social security would be much more solvent if Johnston didn't open it for the general fund, which was supposted to be a no-no under the initial legislation, and of course it was "temporary" but once the money spigot is on Washington didn't turn it off. So let's start with fixing that.
Most items posted in the humor pic are locally funded. In many places sidewalks, if they exist at all in a neighborhood, must be maintained by the homeowners. So it varies by locality.
Oh, does not Nancy Pelosi get subsidies or divert the min wage hike/environmental regulation from companies she profits from? (Dole, Starkist..) All politians need term limits.
Politics is a money game. It's all about the money, the problem is the govt keeps growing and wants more and more money and more and more debt. That shit needs to stop.
Whether locally funded or federally funded, most of what's in the picture comes from tax revenue.
And yes, fat needs to be trimmed, but you don't slice off a hand to fix a hangnail. Spending is a serious problem and needs to be fixed with serious solutions, not arbitrarily defunding everything.
And the rich need to pay higher taxes. Or at least pay SOMETHING.
It's not much as cut taxes but reduce spending on stupid stuff (mandatory arabic in Texas public schools...uhm not really needed. Send scholoars to France to study something off the wall, no. Use net meeting. The waste in the NSF is somethign to behold) and properly budget for liabilities according to accounting rules and don't raid the pension or underfund and use the money for more polically expedient reasons. Social security would be much more solvent if Johnston didn't open it for the general fund, which was supposted to be a no-no under the initial legislation, and of course it was "temporary" but once the money spigot is on Washington didn't turn it off. So let's start with fixing that.
Most items posted in the humor pic are locally funded. In many places sidewalks, if they exist at all in a neighborhood, must be maintained by the homeowners. So it varies by locality.
Oh, does not Nancy Pelosi get subsidies or divert the min wage hike/environmental regulation from companies she profits from? (Dole, Starkist..) All politians need term limits.
Politics is a money game. It's all about the money, the problem is the govt keeps growing and wants more and more money and more and more debt. That shit needs to stop.
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And yes, fat needs to be trimmed, but you don't slice off a hand to fix a hangnail. Spending is a serious problem and needs to be fixed with serious solutions, not arbitrarily defunding everything.
And the rich need to pay higher taxes. Or at least pay SOMETHING.
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