Taxes are to high on all levels.
Taxes are to high on all levels.
How do you propose to change that when half the electorate is not required to participate in paying federal taxes due to high personal exemption, standard deductions and tax credits for everything under the sun?
Folks (i.e. voters) not participating proportionately in paying the costs of largess are just part of the ever growing constituency for even more government spending and largess.
Until the entire electorate participates in the tax sysetem and perceive the butchers bill proportionately with there benfit from the economy as measured by their consumption you can expect government to continue to grow without limit.
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw