Entitlements take all of our money, and we're unwilling to provide the government with more.
This reminds me of the cloassic Emergency Services/Paramedics scam run by every county in the country. "Without this tax increase, we'll have to drop the paramedic program and cut the Fire Dept in half...and police services too".
All the while, there's never any mention of the possibility of cutting the needle exchange program...or the free medical care for illegals program.
YEP, what YOU SAID!
Just know that this will be the fault of GWB!
Early thread, poster said that the "local" reporter asked the engineering "expert" they were interviewing......"if this administration had not squandered so much money in Iraq, we would have had more $$$ to keep our bridges safe, right?"
It has started, as we all knew it would.
This reminds me of the cloassic Emergency Services/Paramedics scam run by every county in the country. "Without this tax increase, we'll have to drop the paramedic program and cut the Fire Dept in half...and police services too".
Please don't get me started on this. I lived it first hand.
In California, after Prop. 13, about half of all the basic functions of government were transformed into fee-based functions, and threats of eliminating the basic necessities of government were rampant.
An examination and comparison of all city and state budgets for 1969 and 1989 will verify the massive shifts is spending patterns.
At the state level, taxes magically were transformed into "fees", which the new Constitutional Amendment failed to make clear.
If the people knew the extent of the bureaucratic scam, there would be tons of lynchings....
Just saying.
Federal gasoline tax = 18.4 cents/gal
State tax = ~24 cents/gal (avg)
How much of that money do you think is actually going back into infrastructure?
Considering the record amounts of fuel being sold to a growing population that likes to drive eeeeeevil gas-guzzling SUVs, one might expect that highway maintenance and improvements wouldn’t be so badly underfunded.
when every city, county, state and federal agency sees fit to be overly generous with their pay and benefits with their employees, including relatively huge pensions and medical payments, how can any money be left for parks, zoos, roads, bridges, etc....
throw in the fact that SS and social programs are taking more and more.....
THERE IS NO MONEY FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT LINING THE POCKETS OF CIVIL SERVANTS, right or wrong....
so let's stop our bitchin' because we know the problem of the bottomless pit of pensions and medical retirements.....
just look at pie charts of where our taxes go.....the problem is so evident....
What do you mean can’t afford it? We have enough money to pour into never-ending wars. We have enough money to pour into the space program. We have enough money to give all sorts of benefits to illegal aliens. How could we not have enough money to take care of the people who pay the taxes? When will the people realize that we have to elect people who will use our money wisely? Are there any out there to elect?