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Not to burst your bubble but most of the taxes you pay go to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and various handouts to select industries. Virtually none of th
by grandalf 13y ago
Not to burst your bubble but most of the taxes you pay go to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and various handouts to select industries.
Virtually none of the tax money goes to help the downtrodden or to build necessary infrastructure.
As a property owner you are getting big tax breaks and so your support has been bought.
- rayiner 13y ago> Not to burst your bubble but most of the taxes you pay go to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and various handouts to select industries. That's not really true. A large part of your taxes goes to the military, but that's not co-extensive with the Iraq and Afghanistan war. That money goes towards maintaining the largest most powerful military in the world, enabling the U.S. to continue to be the supreme world power. If you don't think that primacy is directly relevant to your quality of life as an American (a people who as a category consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources relative even to other highly developed countries), I'm not sure what to tell you.
- mistermann 13y ago> If you don't think that primacy is directly relevant to your quality of life as an American The quality of life of a lot of countries is influenced by the American military, both good and bad. And actually, the US doesn't spend nearly what most people think it does, as a percentage of GDP. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS