Hows it fair to cut some government programs to pay for others intead of raising taxes?

Question

You know the ones their cutting. I'm a tax payer myself but don't mind paying taxes that help people even if some people cheat the system. Think of the ones you help the ones who need it.

Answer 1

No government program is really about helping those who need it. It is about government salaries, benefits, expense accounts. It is about having nice offices with expensive artwork on the walls and plenty of slack about how quickly you get back from coffee break. It's about having your cousin be the supplier for the project's materials, and him charging three times what Costco would. It's about using the poor and needy as an excuse.

They never cut government programs to pay for other government programs; they cut government programs to punish the politicos who supported the program and then failed to support the other guys' programs.

You figure maybe I'm unreasonably cynical? Actually, it's not as bad as I've said: it's a good bit worse!

Answer 2

Personally I pay enough taxes, but if they want to tax the rich some more that would be okay. I don't mind paying taxes or helping people but the ones that abuse and cheat the system need to recieve major punishment for doing so if and when cought, that would cut down on some of the spending where they would have the money for all of people that really need it.

Answer 3

Taxes are a smoke and mirrors BS lie our gov has palmed off on us. Alaska has an Earth Rights system that pays ALL the states expences and PAYS all the residents $1000 p/yr. If the US as whole had a system like Alaska has been useing for almost 30 years. Every household would get a $50,000 p/yr check and pay NO taxes.



The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

Answer 4

Oh it's not fair. The congressmen need your letters and phone calls. We all need to do this, and for heavens sake VOTE. We can all get more involved and get things done. You don't have to be a politician. WE are the government. We need to remember that.

Answer 5

There are never any cuts in government. The money taken from you and spent by government increases every year. Stop listening to the liberal media. They are liars.