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Originally Posted by wind_magic
Maybe we could get the debt paid off if politicians would just be honest (I know, I'm dreaming). I think the American people would even be willing to pay higher taxes if we KNEW that the extra money was reducing the debt burden and that it would, in the end, help us pay less in interest. Let me say it again - if every American could actually trust Washington D.C. to charge them an extra 1k$us/year in taxes I think we'd pay it if we KNEW WITHOUT A DOUBT that it would reduce the national debt by 1/30th and that our taxes would get reduced by the amount of interest we would be saving on the national debt.
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Sadly, that's not the way it works, you see guys like SCK (liberal 'right' thinking people) would make sure that I paid 30k a year, and that most 'poor' folks paid nothing or very very little.
I, for one, know damn well the money would not go to debt reduction, and for two know that the excessive spending and fiscal lack of responsibility was wasted primarily on 'entitlements' and 'social justice' and all manner of Robin Hood like schemes - and therefore would not pay.
Ob boy get's elected and raises my taxes I will indeed pay a accountant to find ways to reduce my tax load before I pay more taxes. I might even take a 3-4 month unpaid vacation every year. I am not working for America, I gave at the altar of military service, future donations are (dare I say it, yes I do) unfair.
There SCK I said it, me paying taxes is manisfestly unfair. I want social justice.