Comments on: My tax money at work http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/ You'll laugh you ass off. (I did.) Tue, 15 May 2012 03:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mar http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24665 Mar Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:19:31 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24665 I wonder if there are a lot of mutant rhinoceros running amok in states where there is no income tax? I wonder if there are a lot of mutant rhinoceros running amok in states where there is no income tax?

]]> By: Tiffany S. http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24664 Tiffany S. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:57:06 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24664 As if you weren't awesome enough, you go and play the Encyclopedia Brown card! Thank you for making me not feel ancient! (I'm sure if I mentioned EB at work, the girls would just look at me like "Oh that crazy Tiffany - always bringing up things from the 70's before we were even born.") I don't care when you were born, if you can reference EB you're alright with me! As if you weren’t awesome enough, you go and play the Encyclopedia Brown card! Thank you for making me not feel ancient! (I’m sure if I mentioned EB at work, the girls would just look at me like “Oh that crazy Tiffany – always bringing up things from the 70′s before we were even born.”)

I don’t care when you were born, if you can reference EB you’re alright with me!

]]> By: JoWriter http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24663 JoWriter Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:47:16 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24663 It's true roads are not paid for by direct federal taxation of income. The gasoline tax - levied by both the federal and state governments and sometimes by cities and counties, too, is what pays to build and maintain roads. Well, maintain, anyway. Have you noticed not many roads are being built? Those people who worry that their favorite government program wouldn't be funded if we could say what out tax money would fund, are forgetting how many people support that/those program(s). Some people want our country to be defended. Some people want to help the poor. I'm not sure whether anybody wanted to bail out the banks and auto industry besides the employees of those places, but there you go, that's why the govt takes it. I'm a freelancer, too. Isn't it fun? I love my boss as much as you apparently love yours. *grin* It’s true roads are not paid for by direct federal taxation of income. The gasoline tax – levied by both the federal and state governments and sometimes by cities and counties, too, is what pays to build and maintain roads. Well, maintain, anyway. Have you noticed not many roads are being built?

Those people who worry that their favorite government program wouldn’t be funded if we could say what out tax money would fund, are forgetting how many people support that/those program(s). Some people want our country to be defended. Some people want to help the poor. I’m not sure whether anybody wanted to bail out the banks and auto industry besides the employees of those places, but there you go, that’s why the govt takes it.

I’m a freelancer, too. Isn’t it fun? I love my boss as much as you apparently love yours. *grin*

]]> By: Marie http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24662 Marie Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:38:32 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24662 I think the soldiers deserve your consideration. If they did not fight the wars, it is unlikely we'd be enjoying the roads or the water as well as we are now. I think the soldiers deserve your consideration. If they did not fight the wars, it is unlikely we’d be enjoying the roads or the water as well as we are now.

]]> By: Thealogian http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24661 Thealogian Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:23:18 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24661 Hallelujah! Its nice to hear another person who sees what the good work tax money can do! Jon Stewart the other day made a very similar statement, particularly as he want's to see his tax money go toward making sure that everybody has access to quality healthcare. The anti-tax rhetoric of the past thirty years always seemed to dismiss the value of government as our source of shared security and civilization...schools, roads, general infrastructure, water, etc. IMPORTANT. As for select you own tax principals, I'm sure that conservatives would out-select food-stamp programs, medicaid/SCHIP, any family planning programs, science education in schools, etc. So, we have to go with what we've got (though you could pull a modern day Thoreau and refuse to pay based on war-expenditures, but I doubt you'd only have to spend a couple days in jail while your mommy pays your taxes on the back-end.) I get the desire, though, believe me. I think that Katrina really woke some people up to the importance of a competent, well funded government. It was such a failure only all levels primarily as a result of people who are against "government' who wanted to "starve the beast" well, not fixing the levies for year after year because of lack of funding, and then putting a total knob in charge of FEMA didn't help the situation. Government has value, particularly when run by people who believe in the capacity of government to enact the wishes of the people who elected it to do good in this world. Peace Hallelujah! Its nice to hear another person who sees what the good work tax money can do! Jon Stewart the other day made a very similar statement, particularly as he want’s to see his tax money go toward making sure that everybody has access to quality healthcare.

The anti-tax rhetoric of the past thirty years always seemed to dismiss the value of government as our source of shared security and civilization…schools, roads, general infrastructure, water, etc. IMPORTANT.

As for select you own tax principals, I’m sure that conservatives would out-select food-stamp programs, medicaid/SCHIP, any family planning programs, science education in schools, etc. So, we have to go with what we’ve got (though you could pull a modern day Thoreau and refuse to pay based on war-expenditures, but I doubt you’d only have to spend a couple days in jail while your mommy pays your taxes on the back-end.) I get the desire, though, believe me.

I think that Katrina really woke some people up to the importance of a competent, well funded government. It was such a failure only all levels primarily as a result of people who are against “government’ who wanted to “starve the beast” well, not fixing the levies for year after year because of lack of funding, and then putting a total knob in charge of FEMA didn’t help the situation. Government has value, particularly when run by people who believe in the capacity of government to enact the wishes of the people who elected it to do good in this world.

Peace

]]> By: SnowDog http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24660 SnowDog Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:11:52 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24660 Note: Federal Income Taxes have nothing to do with roads, water, or cops. Those are all provided with local taxes. Note: Federal Income Taxes have nothing to do with roads, water, or cops. Those are all provided with local taxes.

]]> By: Samantha in Oz http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24659 Samantha in Oz Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:51:41 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24659 I guess Australian place names (like Woolloomooloo) don't count. I guess Australian place names (like Woolloomooloo) don’t count.

]]> By: Leigh Ann http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24658 Leigh Ann Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:17:46 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24658 It's so frustrating paying federal taxes, because no matter which party is in power, they're all completely incompetent and inefficient and waste billions. Maybe I wouldn't mind so much if I thought actual good was being done with it. As it is, it just seems a waste. I give to charities and church as it is, but just think how much more could be accomplished if I could give the money that goes to the government as well. And yes, I know we need roads, etc. but it does seem a shame to work hard for it and then have most of it wasted by bureaucracy and inefficiency, or just plain corruption. I think about that every quarter when it comes time to send it in. It’s so frustrating paying federal taxes, because no matter which party is in power, they’re all completely incompetent and inefficient and waste billions. Maybe I wouldn’t mind so much if I thought actual good was being done with it. As it is, it just seems a waste. I give to charities and church as it is, but just think how much more could be accomplished if I could give the money that goes to the government as well. And yes, I know we need roads, etc. but it does seem a shame to work hard for it and then have most of it wasted by bureaucracy and inefficiency, or just plain corruption. I think about that every quarter when it comes time to send it in.

]]> By: Lucrecia http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24657 Lucrecia Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:37:59 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24657 I'm glad your free lance work is going so well. I can't even begin to imagine where our country would be if each person got to decide that their tax dollars only went to the places they deemed necessary. With no military we wouldn't be a free nation for long. I’m glad your free lance work is going so well.

I can’t even begin to imagine where our country would be if each person got to decide that their tax dollars only went to the places they deemed necessary. With no military we wouldn’t be a free nation for long.

]]> By: Teena Golden http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/08/my-tax-money-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24656 Teena Golden Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:34:18 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-24656 I'm right there with ya on taxes, sister! If you decide to go into politics I'll support you! I’m right there with ya on taxes, sister! If you decide to go into politics I’ll support you!

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