Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I am not a fiscal Puritan in that I despise all taxes. I'm willing to
pay my fair share into the common wealth of the nation. And I believe
that my share should be the same as people who are less well off and
those more well off - I worked hard for my money, ruined my overall
health doing it and I want to keep it. For that, I'm willing to pay,
right off the top - no excuses, 15% of what I make every year even
though I'm retired.

Sorry, but the way things are run nowadays 15% from everybody would
result in either disastrous deficits or huge cuts in gov't spending...
probably both.

Personally, I object to the flat tax on moral grounds. It is a de facto
penalty on the poor, and trivializes tax expense to the super-rich....
who BTW gain the most from gov't services, so shouldn't they pay more?


What I object to is the whole issue of using the term "revenue" rather
than what it is - taxes. Puts the entire concept into a whole new
light.

What I object to are sweet heart deals with the State that allows a
company like Verizon to give a 10% discount to State workers on top of
any promotional discounts - real citizens of the state, who pay the
freakin' bills - aren't given that privilege.

You need to join a good collective bargaining pool. This doesn't seem
like a gov't issue to me, just the power of mass purchasing.


What I object to is the State DMV staffing a local office on a
Saturday, for three months in a row, with people who can't speak, or
have an extremely low grasp of, English thus justifying closing the
office because of lack of business. (That is not a joke)

I object to "fees" that aren't designated to the subject for which
they are issued - hunting and fishing licenses being a good example.

I object to hiring tax accountants and lawyers to keep the government
from raping me at the end of the year just because I worked hard to
obtain what I have and I want to keep it.

I object to long winded rants about stuff. :)

I don't know what the answer is, but we need to solve it quickly or
we're just going to keep shooting ourselves in the foot.

I suspect that it will never be solved. The ancient Greeks complained
about the same things... along with the shameful lack of respect &
intelligence by the teenagers, appalling traffic & poor road
maintenance... AFAIK they did not sail for recreation and so did not
comlain about the lousy wind, but I bet they griped about poor fishing.

Other than that, I agree on all points. Well said!

Regards
Doug King