Do you get more money from your boss when you feel you need it...how come Government raises taxes so easily?

Question

We can't tell my husband's company we need more more and just TAKE IT.
Why should the government be able to spend our hard earned money so foolishly without having to ASK us?
Do you want to fund reasearch into the mating habits of trout?
My son was being inducted into an honor Faternity. We had to listen to a lecture from a man who took about 30 students to Europe to study whether trout mated with fish the same size of not (they did). They were there 10 days - paid for by you and me. They spent 3 days on the "study" and he had no problem telling us they got acclimated to their surroundings first - liberal double-speak meaning - they screwed off and had fun for the first 7 days.

Answer 1

That kind of falls on us. We have allowed the Federal government to get out of hand. We as citizens have the ability to change that if we can find the will.............

Answer 2

Pork barrel spending is a pretty bi-partison habit in Washington.

Remember Ted Steven's $320M bridge to nowhere? All because people in a town of 8900 didn't want to wait 15 to 30 minutes for a ferry.
Thank God that got taken out of the Highway bill.

Answer 3

RLP,

I go back to the Alexander Tyler quote that truly is a measure of where we are as a country.

For the uninformed the US is a representative Republic (NOT a democracy.) However it is becoming less like a republic each day as people see more what they can get out of government then what they contribute.

The following is why Hillary and the Socialists (or Facists) should not be elected – in it’s most elementary form. Now, I am not the 10th man, but I might be the ninth or the eighth, and as such would end up being the one holding the tab if the 10th man should decide to blow the joint. In fact I think that Hillary economics puts all but the first four or five in that boat – so who pays the bill?





Subject: barstool economics...I have not checked the source

..... "I am convinced, in spite of this eloquent explanation, the reason people don't GET how taxes work is they do not WANT to get it. This is, nevertheless a good analogy and a good read. The bottom line says it all and should be a bumper and campaign sticker."


From the University of Georgia :

Bar Stool Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all
ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,
it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with
the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since
you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the
cost of your daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so
the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could
they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair
share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they
subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the
sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar
owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by
roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts
each should pay.

And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four
continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men
began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He
pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!" "Yeah, that's right,"
exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair
that he got ten times more than I!" "That's true!!" shouted the
seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The
wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four
men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine
sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the
bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough
money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors,
is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get
the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them
for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact,
they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat
friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia


For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible


"A democracy is always temporary"

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature ; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage "

Answer 4

It's true that the last Republican Congress was spending money like they were Democrats, but the Democrats are the people who set the standard for governmental squandering. They should be forced to have public referendums before increasing any taxes. We should have a say in how much they get to spend, whether they like it, or not.

Answer 5

Your boss is obviously a Democrat. He probably works secretly for the IRS as a undercover agent on a secret tax mission. Sense the sarcasm moonbat?

Answer 6

This kind of crap spending is nothing new. We research everything just so we have scientific data to "prove" what we already knew. Have you looked into some of the crazy earmarks/pork barrel spending?

Answer 7

Yeah, I hear you.
I get sick when I think of my hard earned money going to pay for Bushes phoney war in Iraq.

Answer 8

Wait until Hillary gets in our wallets

Answer 9

Total Republican control of Congress and the White House in 2000 - 2006 saw spending spiral out of control like sailors on a drunken leave. Republicans offering themselves up as fiscally responsible in government is one of the most cynical exercises I have ever seen.

Answer 10

Government must provide benefits to all equitably according to the needs of the people who are similarly situated.