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We could start with all the things the federal government wasn't involved in prior to the enactment of the income tax.
by nybble41 8y ago
We could start with all the things the federal government wasn't involved in prior to the enactment of the income tax.
- dredmorbius 8y agoYou're not answering the question. The world has changed somewhat since 1894.
- nybble41 8y agoYou asked what the government could spend less on. I answered the question. What more do you want?
- dredmorbius 8y agoYou've not given specific cases, and your hand-wave ignores reality.
- AntiTechTechie 8y agoMaintaining over 700 military bases across the world, endless war (handouts to Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex companies), corporate welfare, foreign aid, public art, Africa, etc...
- dredmorbius 8y agoOK, that's a set of specifics, though for the first you might find much of that has some justification (economically, not necessarily morally) via geopolitics of both raw materials (petrochemical and the Harbord list) and trade. FYI the last three items amount to about 2% or less of Federal spending. All discretionary spending was 16% in 2016: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2016.svg/1280px-U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2016.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/U.... Excluding entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, debt service) it's still minuscule: http://memepoliceman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/viper-records.jpg http://memepoliceman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/viper-re...