How much would you save on taxes if the social programs you hate were eliminated?

Question

Do the math.

Get a copy of the US budget, find the programs you hate, add them all up, then figure out the percentage they represent of the entire budget,

Then apply that percentage to your most recent tax filing.

Remember, 50% goes to the military and 30% goes to interest on the debt. That leaves 20% for everything else, from dredging the Mississippi, to direct welfare payments, to corporate welfare., to roads in natonal parks.

Do the math.

Answer 1

Why limit it to just social programs? Why not the parts of the military budget that you disagree with? Why not the part of the national debt that is because of gross misspending in the past and present?

We NEED a military. I WANT a good, well equiped military. I do NOT want the $700 hammer fiascos that crop up occationally. I believe there is waste beyond comprehension in the military budget and in all the other department's budgets. That is more objectionable to me than any other factor.

There are things that both liberals and conservatives find objectionable in the budget. Sorry, but that is just one drawback of a civilized government. Not everyone will agree with every expenditure.

Person A hates that his/her tax dollar is spent on birth control because all birth control except abstinance is immortal and a sin. Person B hates that his/her tax dollar is spent for abstinance only teaching because it doesn't work very well and teachs several mistruths.

It is not possible to live in a civilized country and agree with every program. How can anyone agree that waste is acceptable, though? Unless you are the one being paid $700 for the $20 item. Then, of course, there are reasons for the price that I am too uninformed to understand.

Answer 2

Beg Pardon "Dad", I have done the math for 30 years, 100% of the IRS revenue from income tax goes directly to the Federal Reserve Bank to pay the interest on the national debt. As the economy fluctuates (usually improving, as with Reagan) so does income tax revenue, so then does congressional borrowing power, and the debt goes up.
The problem is not the value ($) amount of the programs, but the long term costs to society they manifest, like a trillion for drug and welfare ghetto law enforcement after welfare programs emasculated the father, driving him out of the "Ideal family unit" as envisioned by liberals in their eternal search for the Utopian government run system.
The Budget report you are relying on is not a true financial report, just an invention of Congress to appease the media. You need to study the Congressional Financial Abstract a little closer. NO percentage of IRS revenue is used for military spending. The Federal Government still has considerable income from Import and excise taxes and operating “fees”. YOU do the math.
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Answer 3

Well since we outspend the ENTIRE planet 6 to 1 on military spending why don't we leave social programs alone since they don'e cost as much and spend say 3 to 1 over the rest of the freakin' world on miltary and see if we can't do even more for ourselves right here at home

By the way what is so wrong about social programs? You act like helping the down trodden of society is some kind of sin, I think social programs are a great testament to the moral good of our democratic society and as such we should be proud, what would you have the indigent and disabled do or do you want to just gas them to get them out of your way?

Answer 4

Of course you are assuming a few things. Such as, more programs would be devised to replace those you hate, and that other spending wouldn't go up, like Senator and Congress-men's salaries, or military spending. And don't forget that the deficit needs to be paid down too!

Answer 5

I don't hate any social programs. People who need help deserve to get it and as a decent person in society if I have more I am will to give to those who have less. I believe that is in the bible but because I'm atheist I'm not sure.

Answer 6

Why not merely revamp the full tax device??? i imagine that all of us might want to pay a flat tax of say 15% of our annual earnings in taxes. all of us - you're making $a million.5 Billion, you pay 15% of that in taxes. you're making $one hundred,000, you pay 15% of it in taxes. No "shelters". No "cuts". No "breaks". Pay that a lot. in case you pay in sufficient prior to time, then you truthfully have not something to agonize about. yet sitting right here and wanting to shrink issues is amazingly confusing. What i does not favor to pay for and what somebody else does not favor to pay for are very diverse. in my opinion, I DO imagine that Farm Subsidies are significant. Why? nicely, I stay in a farming community, and that i see that those farmers are not rolling in dough. they ought to purchase each of the equipment to reap and milk, and they ought to pay the persons that help out (some have slightly a lot to do all on their own). Then they ought to pay sources taxes (and for farmers, they pay the most because of the quantity of land they own), and a number of them are figuring out to purchase such issues as faculties and stuff in those taxes even as they now not have youngsters contained in the school. and then you want them to easily strengthen and convey as a lot as they could without worry??? What takes position is merely too a lot hits the market, and the fee bottoms out because the market receives flooded. And even as it is composed of the produce, it rots and spoils waiting to be offered, costing thousands and thousands. And if the fee does bypass low sufficient, it would not pay to furnish. I recommend, you extremely understand how a lot money a farmer receives from growing to be an acre of corn??? not a hell of plenty. they're fortunate to cover fee. And milk? ignore it - which will bring about farmers dumping out their milk packing boxes instead of promoting the milk because they are going to lose out in the journey that they produce too a lot and force the fee down. those subsidies are significant to keep the farmers round. You lose farmers, and also you imagine world starvation is an argument now. . . it's going to be worse come 5 years. human beings favor to end searching at what they imagine is unimportant. See, human beings imagine that if it would not result them, then this is not significant. That couldn't be extra from the truth.

Answer 7

Where's the place where I get to reduce military spending by half and add the money to domestic and foreign aid programs that help people instead of killing them?

Answer 8

a quick estimate 15- 20 k per year

Answer 9

i would be happy enough if i didn't have to educate the children of a different country. They refuse to learn our language and badmouth our president. But it is my tax dollars that is giving them their freedoms

Answer 10

I think my whole share goes to a family down the street.