90% of the taxes go to the enriching the bureaucracy and providing things citizens should be paying for themselves.
Education: If you have a kid pay for his education. Expecting someone else to pay is so un-American it makes my head explode. The whole education bureaucracy is completely unnecessary and useless, especially at the State and Federal level.
Medicare/Medicaid: People need to pay for their medical treatment. They've increased the demand dramatically with these idiotic programs and can't figure out why the costs have skyrocketed. Duh.
It goes on and on and on.
Government was designed to protect our unalienable rights.
I agree but now we are getting into a spending debate.
I want to hear from you and others how local government can fund essentials such police, fire, courts, jails, etc.
I hate an income tax as well as property tax and business tax and IF sales tax takes a major hit with e-commerce expansion, then how to fund my local essential government services? That’s the question.
I am thinking tax engineering, how to design a fair, transparent, simple easy to manage tax system at the state/local level.
I am thinking outside the box such as endowed local tax bond issues that get a federal kickback if the local bond monies are attached to a US Treasury bond, so that state/locals get a reliable revenue stream for defined essential services only, and the federal kickback would be limited by the old Constitutional device of apportionment.
The above would segregate essential services from the tax revenue pools that leftist groups think they own for their waste and intrusion.
The more I think about my idea above the more I like it.