Taxes

You know what irritates me, well besides that rash on my butt, is when I hear people say we need to cut taxes. I've heard it through out the Bush years, and still hear it now from bozo's like Kudlow, Hannity, Kneale, Cramer..........they say stuff like, "It's our money.......let us spend it and grow the economy.....free market", bla bla bla.
It's not our money.
We hire our government, local and federal, to preform a service for us. We hire our government to protect us, educate us, give us shelter, take care of us when we are sick, old, hungry, unemployed, pick up our trash, finance our homes, cars, make sure the food, drugs, water and air are safe for consumption..........on and on and on.
We expect them to do this for us and we pay for these services through taxation.

But yet we want them to lessen our tax burden and somehow expand the services they supply us with.
We are running trillion dollar deficits, spending twice the money we take in but yet we want money back.
If you hire a painter to paint your house, do you expect that painter to give you money back after he has completed the service you hired him for?
Why do we expect our gov to do the same?
If you can't afford to have your house painted then don't have it painted, or just paint the areas that need it the most.

We need to reevaluate the services we hire our government to preform for us, and eliminate or reduce the ones we can do without.
We must also question our government when they request more money for the service we hire them to do, just as we would question the painter, painting our house if he said he needed more money.
But we don't. Our gov says they need mo money and we give it........err....the future taxpayers give it.
We have military in over 150 nations, people unemployed for 2 years still collecting checks, millionaires collecting Social Security, prescription drugs handed out like candy, bailed out bankers with million dollar bonuses, housing lazy people who don't want to work, still financing homes for people we know can't afford it, ridiculous pensions and the largest employer is our government.......etc.

Yup......cut taxes. That'll fix it.

I feel better now.