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Old 01-20-2017, 03:32 AM  
Paul Markham
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Taxes v Services in a Modern country.

Most Americans have been brainwashed into believing they pay too much taxes. When in reality they pay too little.

Borrowing is the difference between what the Government Spends and the taxpayers pay. So rising debt is 100% about paying too little.

Services like Medicare, education, police, prisons, courts, and all the other services a modern country demands all come from taxes. There are other things as well that are essential to run modern countries that are best delivered by the public sector. Would you want a Government run and funded only by the private sector and working only for the bosses of the biggest in that sector? </irony>

Add to that a private healthcare, education, fire service, paramedics, lighting, and more services only.

Before you argue they should be lower, suggest logical places you want less money spent and have that disappear or replaced by the private sector.
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