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By eliminating all personal taxes? Yeah, easy win ... Unless you like crimes to be punished, fires to be put out, kids to be educated, people not to be dying of
by gmac 13y ago
By eliminating all personal taxes? Yeah, easy win ... Unless you like crimes to be punished, fires to be put out, kids to be educated, people not to be dying of poverty, and oh, a couple of other things.
- ahomescu1 13y agoA lot of those are currently funded (in the US) from local taxes: property and sales tax (at least that's how it is where I live, in a California county). School, police and fire departments are locally-funded. Getting rid of income taxes would not impact these. (EDIT: the GP was proposing abolition of all personal taxes, but the one that comes up the most in discussions is the personal income tax; we could just eliminate that one).
- mikeyouse 13y agoFor the record, ~10% of California's K-12 budget comes from Federal funds, $5.5 Billion in 2009.[1] The Feds pay hundreds of millions per year in grants to local Police forces[2] and similarly large amounts to firefighters.[3] [1] - http://www.cbp.org/pdfs/2009/090202_SFF_HowSchoolsGetTheirMoney.pdf http://www.cbp.org/pdfs/2009/090202_SFF_HowSchoolsGetTheirMo... [2] - http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2367 http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2367 [3] - http://www.fema.gov/welcome-assistance-firefighters-grant-program http://www.fema.gov/welcome-assistance-firefighters-grant-pr...