ideally, where would you most like to see your tax dollars go?
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Illegal drug interdiction.\n\nDurgs contribute far too much to all sorts of crime, and misery, and strain social services and law enforcement to the breaking point.\n\nEducation. Need I say more? If all of the tax dollars that went into munitions and war-mongering were spent on education, the schools in this country would be the best on Earth.\n\nEducation should be our first priority. If our children are not first with us, what should be?\n\nIn my opinion, teachers should be the best-paid professionals. Who is it that trains all the doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc? Teachers - that's who.\n\nClean up the inner cities.\n\nRebuild and provide decent housing for all.\n\nEmployment for all, according to their capabilities.\n\nGood health care for all, employed or not.\n\nThe space program! We need to unite, quit the human in-fighting, and look beyond! So many new materials, and so much knowledge, have come from the research involved in the space program!\n\nScience! Science! Science, I say! Fund useful research!\n\nAlternative energy! Clean energy! Solar, wind, nuclear...Fossil fuels have got to GO!\n\nCops and firemen have tough dirty jobs. They need more emotional support. Too many of them are burned-out and destroyed by the ugly work that they do.\n\nI do believe that we need to maintain a military force, but far too much money is spent on war under the current system.\n\nGovernment itself should be reduced, in my opinion. Too many people are getting paid far too much to interfere and pry into the lives of our citizens.\n\nWe are far too over-legislated, and over-litigated, in my opinion!\n\nWell, Patz, that is my over-long, scattershot answer.  :-))
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How about reducing taxes and government waste, increasing personal freedoms, keeping our country safe from terrorists, reducing prescription drug and healthcare costs, and raising the minimum wage?
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It depends on how much- if it's just a little, I would spend it on books or Bath & Body Works.  If it's more than a little, I would go to Europe.  If it's a lot, I would pay off my bills, my family's bills, and get the hell out of Dodge!
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I would get rid of the current tax system.  The government taxes differently according to income; so, not only do people on welfare get MY tax money, they also, don't have to pay the percentage of taxes that I do, if any at all.  I would also change the welfare system.  The current system is ridiculous; it encourages people to get pregnant and shoot out as many kids as they can, so they can get more money.  People on welfare should get NO MORE than what they would make at a minimum wage job, because, hey, they're not working for it.  Also, they should only be eligible for a certain about of time, say, 1 year, to give them time to get back on their feet.  Then say, they shouldn't be eligible for another 3-5 years after that.  Some people get a four year degree from a college and make less that what people are getting off welfare.  Does that not bother anyone else???\n\nNo! I would not end the war.  I think it's necessary for the safety of democracy.
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Go to work, pay your taxes, vote, help others.
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Yes, I love this country and the land we live on.\n\nAnyone interested in contributing to a fund so we can make 'leave me's wish come true?
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into the pockets of our politicians
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other than the federal government I would look into\nthe catholic church, oil companies/utilities, with food type corporations (like conagra) coming in third maybe
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You betcha, THAT is something I would donate money to!
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Well most importantly I'd make sure my wealth lasts so I can keep helping for longer.\nI'd probably want to make a bit more before I used a considerable chunk to help society.\n\nI wouldn't give to any charities though. I think they are kind of self-defeating. I would like to help make my hometown somewhere worth visiting.\nI would save small shops and things like that. Try to stop the big corporations taking over.\nGive to the smaller cities (in Britain where I live) and help them to get more things and to compete with London. London gets too much and it's not fair on people who live nowhere near it.\n\nI would help fund things like skateparks and independant cinemas and youth hostels so people can travel about the country on a budget.\n\nI don't see much point in giving thousands of pounds to a charity for a rare disease which is only going to benefit about 10 people across the whole country. Or to cancer research or something when people are going to continue to smoke and then wonder why they got lung cancer. Then they need to be treated on the NHS.
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My wish would be that all the deadbeat parents hiding all around the world would wake up one morning and realize exactly what they were doing to their children and start not only paying their child support but becoming actively and productively involved in their children's lives.  \n\nShort of that, I wish that the government would wake up and smell the coffee burning and realize that we need more caseworkers and more accountability within the Child Support Enforcement system especially here in Illinois where there average worker caseload is 405 versus the National Average of 263.
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I would probably just go out to a poor developing country, maybe in Africa, and try to invest it in the infra structure of the country, maybe try to start a "free educational program" for any family supporting individual. Maybe I will just go there and try to relieve some suffering, in any of its forms, ask the people how would the money would keep itself being reinvested so that there could be some actual "change" among the people that were suffering.
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I would pay off my car, credit card, student loans, parent’s debt, travel the world, donate to rural humane societies, cancer research, and buy a bunch of houses and donate them to single moms. Then I would start some sort of business to give me a purpose in life. And of course go shopping.
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I would first off give some of it my family as they have helped me out through the years, then my friends and pay them back if I ever owed them anything, then I would take the rest, construct a farm where I could save animals. I would start out with dogs cause I love dogs so much.\n\nThanks for the question!!
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You can start by giving some of it to me ...\n\n;-p
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im pretty sure its any amount and if they took money from your federal witholding.
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I would like to receive a grant. Here is my plan... these are my assets and the following are my goals to be achieved by this date.