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The only thing that upsets be about this everyone should be paying 3.4%. The government wastes nearly everything that is handed to it. The old "oh but what abou
by exabrial 5y ago
The only thing that upsets be about this everyone should be paying 3.4%. The government wastes nearly everything that is handed to it. The old "oh but what about police and fire" compromises a micron of the what is sent to the government. All of it ends up in the pockets of Senator's friends.
- feoren 5y agoThis is a very myopic view that basically comes down to "I can't immediately think of thousands of different government services that require money, so they therefore don't exist and it all must be wasted." Yes, there is some corruption and waste, especially in the DoD. It's a non-trivial percentage, and too high. I too wish we gave less money to the defense industry. But when a suspension bridge needs substructure repairs for $400 million, and that contract might go to a Senator's buddy's company, it represents corruption, but not necessarily a huge amount of waste. It's only waste if the company is actually significantly worse at delivering. There are some bad incentives, but mostly everyone is still incentivized to do the job right. I'm hesitant to estimate a percentage on the amount of taxes that are outright wasted due to corruption, but I have serious doubts it's higher than 10%. Yes, that's WAY TOO HIGH, but it's not close to "all of it minus a micron", like you say. Nor is it nearly enough for 3.4% to actually sustain everything; nor is 0% waste possible (but we should still try!).
- kadoban 5y agoThe vast majority goes to defense, social security, medicare/medicaid. Which ones should we dump? I mean we'd have to dump them all to go to the tax rate you propose, but where should we start?