The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Lose the loopholes and actually make people pay percentages and make a two tiered flat tax system.

w00t.

um, no.

You seem to be conflating 2 (or 3) different issues. I may or may not agree that across-the-board tax cuts are needed and I may or may not agree with what tax money should be spent on, but that's an entirely different discussion than whether tax cuts that only lower taxes for a segment of the country that's already paying less than their proportionate share make sense.

I am insulted that the gov't thinks they can spend my money better than I can.

Aggregated money is far more efficient than an equal amount of money distributed. A single entity offering 2 Million dollars for road work will get more roads built than 50,000 individuals offering $40 each for road work. I'm not going to argue that everything our government is spending its money on is being done efficiently, but having a combined resource pool benefits me more than having that $40 in my pocket. The difficult bit is finding the balance point.