No. Only about how much is costs the government. The government has a hand in every pocket and pocketbook but to this fully brainwashed writer ALL money belongs to the government. This writer should be ridiculed off of the media - along with everyone else who utters this absurd canard.
Look at your representatives. Do they want more of your money? Do they promise to "take things from you for the common good"? (Hilary Clinton) Why are so many people willing to support politicians that want to confiscate wealth and money from their friends, neighbors and relatives just to give it away to political cronies like public unions and companies like Solyndra? Have your morals fallen so low that someone like Sanders offering "free" stuff to be paid for by your fellow citizens draws you to him? Or, Clinton who's worth millions and still claims she's not wealthy?
The only people bearing the "cost" of government are the people who produce. They pay all the taxes. They are the dwindling 53% who still want to live a life better than their parents and whose parents worked hard to make that so. People struggling to live a life of liberty and freedom are now the enemy instead of looked at as something to strive for.
The rhetoric of this piece is part of the society that looks upon the victim as someone to be admired. Any victim - real or imaginary.
It’s libtard speak. Change the meaning of words, define the terminology and you’ve won have the (propaganda) battle. Sheeple go bbbaaaaaa bbbaaaaaa..
so what’s the problem. Cut spending by 860 billion a year.
betcha it can be done and we would be fine
In the MSM world, the only thing that “costs” the Government anything is tax cuts.
I say leave the current system in place and allow every taxpayer one year in 4 to pay absolutely no income taxes, which would be an across the board 25% reduction in taxes to tax payers only.
How easy is that?
I agree completely and I reject the assessments based on “cost the government”.
Whatever funding the government receives through taxation is supposed to cover only that which it needs to fulfill its minimum obligations to its citizens. All other brouhaha about “loss in revenue”, “cost the government” or whatever is just specious BS. The bloated beast needs to be put on a minimal subsistence diet until it loses all the ugly, wasted fat.
It’s amazing how letting people keep more of the income they have worked for “costs” so much and is so “expensive”.
Time to throw a nuclear bomb inside the gummit.
Pray America wakes
..Cost the government...
Looks like it will have to learn how to cut and control spending. Otherwise, it’s government as usual that’s killing us.
They believe that ALL money belongs to the Gruberment. We are rightless serfs who are merely here to serve Killery and those who think as she does.
From the Hartford-Courant Newspaper in Connecticut...which is still trying to understand why GE departed for “greener pastures” in Massachusetts.
Nation of serfs.
Works for me.
Hmmm...lost revenue? Cry me a river. I say cut, and cut deep. Heck, eliminating the waste and fraud alone will equate to billions saved. But we can’t do that, can we?
:: a flat 10 percent tax on all personal income and greatly lower the corporate tax rate would ^^cost the federal government^^ at least $8.6 trillion over a decade ::
And THIS is bad because...?
Ultimately, the FedGov has pumped money into a “safety-net” that provides for citizens...
who’s ONLY contribution is their existence...
What these people refuse to concede is that Reagan had similar tax cuts that resulted in a tremendous increase in government tax receipts because of the improved economy the tax cuts brought about.
Thx, I was preparing to go after that same phrase.
My failure to win Powerball has cost me over $20 billion.
And Maria Bartiromo says Cruz is her favorite plan of the candidates.
I still say that every year after a census, we should do a zero baseline budget exercise. Then we post the results so everyone can see exactly how much each government agency is spending and on what. Watch government expenditures plummet every tenth year.
How much of what govt owes is from W. Bush’s Iraq misadventure? We spent maybe a billion dollars to train 5 Syrian rebels - the only ones Obama’s CIA could find who would probably maybe not go jihadi in the near future.