I pay the almost 30% of my weekly paycheck to the government. Yet prices still rise on everything and services do not get better. The government wastes billions of our money on the most ridiculous things also and we have no say of where it goes of how it's spent. Don't you think it's time we took it back!?
209469
A. it's trillions, not billions\n\nB. you should vote for someone else... \n\n\nC. yes... I think it's time someone did something... but if you're making enough money to be taxed 30 percent... you probably won't like my ideas... hahahah
421449
We don't need to raise taxes.   The government has more than enough money if it would reduce corruption and inefficiency.    The waste is staggering.
194117
Our annual trade deficit has ballooned to $726 billion and our federal budget deficit in fiscal 2006 is $423 billion -- an alarming 3.2 percent of gross domestic product, or national economic output. Workers' wages have been stagnant for 20 years and now they are actually declining. Employer-provided health care is shrinking and 46 million people -- most of them from working families -- have no health care coverage.\n\nOur nation is headed in the wrong direction, and now is the time to take steps to turn it around.\n\nInstead of giving more tax breaks to the wealthy and allowing multinational corporations to ship our best jobs offshore, we have to repeal the Bush tax cuts and insist that Congress repeal federal tax laws that reward corporations that send jobs offshore!$6.592 trillion: Federal debt on June 26, 2003, the day Josh Bolten became director of the Office of Management and Budget.\n\n$8.364 trillion: Federal debt today.\n\nIn the Bush administration, this is grounds for a promotion. On January 26, 2006, Bush said in one of his carefully crafted press conferences, "Our economy is growing, it is strong. This economy has created millions of new jobs, yet it's an economy that is changing rapidly." The jobs being created are a result of unconstitutional looting of the people's treasury by Congress for votes. These are government jobs which lure the people into more and more dependency upon mother government. With our major job sectors destroyed because of NAFTA and GATT, Americans are desperate for any sort of decent paying jobs. It will get worse now that Congress and Bush sold us out again with CAFTA. Sadly, Americans are taking jobs with the Nazi, draconian and worthless Department of Homeland Security. Once those pay checks start rolling in, they will not bite the hand that feeds them. This is how slaves are made. The late, great American, Ezra Taft Benson, wrote in his work, An Enemy Hath Done This, that America will be destroyed from within by Americans. His prediction so many decades ago is materializing right before our eyes.
424780
I think this country has gone over the edge as far as helping others.  My tax dollars go to pay for other peoples education and when I need money there is none for me.  I knew someone who got flown in from a different country to have heart surgery completely free of charge.  Would anyone in this country who works and pays takes get that for free ?? Hell no.  My own grandmother got money from the govt for being old.  She had never worked a day in this country.  I think those things are wrong.  The people who live here and pay taxes dont get as much as people from other countries do.
518883
I live in the USA and struggle everyday. Living paycheck to paycheck. Sometimes not eating so the rest of my family can. I have to roll coins to pay for a few gallons of gas in my van so I can get to work to make more small pocket change. Then the govn't takes so much tax out of my check it leaves me barely enought to pay the bills. Then the mailing system (which is operatted by the govn't) is slow and delivers my payments past the due date, then a late fee is applyed to my account. Then I apply for government help and they say I make too much money to get assistance. But I see others around town riding in high priced cars, going to pickup a monthly government check. Those pple live off the taxes that are taken from my check to sit at home jobless and feed their 9 kids without a father. Then I see them pull into the casino and blow their whole Social Security check, which that tax money also gets taken out of my paycheck. I go to the doctor and pay a $25 co-pay just to see the doctor, then pay the remaining balance that my crappy insurance doesn't pick-up (which also gets deducted from my paycheck) . I have to pay another co-pay for any perscriptions that the doc. perscribes. At the same time I see someone with name brand shoes and clothes on tell the nurse that they are on MEDICAID (operated by tax money the govn't takes from my paycheck) Therefore, they pay nothing! It's all free for them.They might have to pay a small $5 fee for medicine. That the rest of their bills is picked up by the government (the taxes taken from my paycheck). It sicken me to see that I am barely able to hang on, but other people take advantage of the government assistance by continuing to be lazy and unresponsible.  Trust me...this is no picnic. Unless your famous, inharitted money, workaholic, or supported by the government....you are living paycheck to paycheck and nothing more.
584715
The reasons we Americans are being taxed is to pay for the government helping us all.  What I think is stupid is that our money we worked hard for is going to people who dont even need it! Those people cant get a job because they are lazy! I understand that we pay the taxes for the elderly and people who REALLY need it, but some of the reasons are ridiculous. Its political buracratic bullcrap! But without taxes, the US would not be a good place to be.
643591
My problem is that we live in the only country in the world who DOES NOT NEED ANY BODY'S HELP. We have it all. Yet, a little country like Japan who has no natural resources but for fishing industry, is beating us in the economy by 26.64%\nIt is not how much money you make, but how much money you save. How in a household, like that in a country too. If we pay so much in taxes of every kind, that this country would be a really model in every way if the money was put back in it. why do we have to spend all of it on stupid wars. If we did not go to war for only 5 years, we would have so much money, we could create jobs for 70% of all the army. This is a horrible the way we are.\nSwitzerland, Australia, all are doing better than us, and those are the ones that never go to wars. I hope our next president is a pacifist.
134680
A solution... government bite the bullet and pay it back...\n\nPrivatized systems work great for the 15 percent of the population that has the money to do that, but for the majority just barely making it by, they won't be able to save enough to actually retire, ever... \n\nSo, when all these people get retirement age, guess what, they're going to look at their private account, realize isn't not enough to do anything with, especially with inflation, and vote in someone who will take care of them...at a far greater cost to the gov. down the road...\n\nI would be willing to be that about 95 percent of people who push for "private accounts" already own stock... if the government switched over, the huge demand for stocks that would be created would push the stock market sky-high, making all those people very rich... that's really convenient isn't it...
625728
Taxes dont work like that..a government/public service is not a choice which benefits just yourself, it benefits the community. You cant say ' i dont want to pay such and such' because someday, you will us that service, and whing when you have to pay! Its a duty we all have to pay , wether we like it or not
134557
ITS IN OUR HANDS OR NOT.WELL BIG COMPANYS KNOW THAT THE SMALL BUSSINESS OWNERS WILL BE BATTELING TO STAY AFLOAT AHA WALLMART LIKES THAT,ENRON STOCKS NOT FALLING.This is pure discrimanition against the working class,ONLY THE AFLUENT GET TO BE ON THE ROADS DURING THE PEAK GAS INCREASES.WHAT BETTER WAY THAN TO STRAND THE LESS DESIRABLES THAN TO PRICE THEM OUT OR OFF THE ROADS,MEAN WHILE THE DECENT FAMILYS WHO STRUGGLE TO MAKE A VISIT TO THERE LOVE ONES ARE FORCED TO STAY HOME MISSING THE HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL EVENTS THAT MAKE A FAMILY AFAMILY,BREAKING THE BONDS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE PROUD OF. i SAY WHO DO I CHARGE WITH DISCRIMINATION. oR ARE WE ALL LIVING IN A PRISON CAMP CONTROLLED BY THE ELITE WORLD GOVERMENT THAT HAS TAKEN ROOT SINCE bUSH SR AND SON HAVE TAKEN OVER AND 911.lETS SEE HOW HIGH OUR TAXES WILL GO UP SO THE LOCAL GOVERMENT WORKERS USE THER SUVS TO GO LUNCHING,LAUNDRYING.WHAT ARE THE INCREASES WITH THE AIRLINES?
167746
Correct on EVERY thing you have said....Nice job sassy. Not to mention..It is being said that prices of goods and services would be on the rise when we deport the "illegals" from our land. If this is the case..why haven't prices gone down as a result of there illegal employment?
177695
hey i'm feelin' you pixiestix, but one thing is that i DO get gov. assistance on some things that i need and I DO work 40 hours a week to support my family and I DO PAY TAXES LIKE EVERYOTHER HARD WORKING CITIZEN... i am a citizen and i live a hard life, so when i see the minorities doing the same, i don't feel that they are just poppin' babies and living off the gov.  but of course don't get me wrong, there are those people out there.  and yes, why should we pay taxes to support illegal immigrants that are just trying to take advantage, i agree with you totally.... but for those that are working hard like you and i and are paying taxes, i think they deserve a chance to better their lives because their country can't provide the jobs, health care, and living...
445829
No. I want the government to spend less in other areas in order to pay for these projects. Too much money is spent on meaningless pork. Too much money is wasted in fraud, waste and abuse. The government needs to do what most families have to do, namely tighten its belt and live within its budget.
411614
I prefer low taxes.  The way I see it, the government just wastes most of our taxdollars anyway, so why would I want to give them more money to waste.  There's plenty of money there already, it just needs to be spent better.
526856
Every time you spend money which is a government entity there is no separation. Every piece of money says IN GOD WE TRUST. It's what this country was built from. There should be no separation.
63194
I would think so, but there is nothing wrong with it if we are hard working US citizens..I mean we pay taxes and always put into the economy..so why not get something back from it!  As long as ppl dont abuse the system !
173010
No not at all,its not like they dont get enough of our money anyway!!  And for what???