GOOD Magazine: Taxes

I suggest you move to Somalia or some other third world Hobbesian state-of-nature hellhole that has none of those pesky taxes that pay for the roads you drive on, the cops on your street, the protections for the food and medicines you consume or the education for yor children.

A valid point, but does your NJ water convieniently arrive to your house via a faucet (which, in turn, is connected to a municipal water main and a reservoir constructed with state or federal funds) or do you bring it home on foot by the bucket? If it is the latter, you really do have a credible reason to complain...

lol..

Seriously!
What does "housing" mean?
What does "nutrition" mean? Like the american government spends a bunch of money on apples?
Sorry but this video is a bunch of crud.

well ... dosn't it ? :D

The video said it was a over simplification. Come on! Go easy on it.

Housing means programs FHA, Freddie Mac (pre-crash anyway), subsidies for the construction industry, portions of Federal welfare that go to rent subsidies, etc.

Nutrition means FDA, Dept of Agg and Dept of Education programs involved in research and nutrition, plus welfare cheese, farm subsidies and research.

The big take home should be, however, how much interest on borrowed money and military/defense (which is non-productive - it earns nothing without use) swamps out all of these.

I am an accountant and I often see numbers I do not believe are accurate. I do not believe the numbers that were presented in the video. I am calling your bluff.

god your really snooty

Sorry I've just realised you put " not you, your leaders" - sorry :)