what should your taxes pay for?

[Mr. Credible]

okay, i was inspired by another thread...

but, simple enough question... you don't have kids, but you're paying for public school... you don't own a car, but you're paying for roads, you're not going to get social security when you get older, but you're still paying it... there's a war going on that you don't believe in, but you're paying for it...


what the hell are you paying taxes for? i mean, i'm all for paying taxes for fireman, police, etc... because those are things that i do use (well, i don't, but you know what i mean) but why am i paying for some unwed teenage mother who got knocked up to live off of welfare? why am i paying for some $100,000 dollar missle fired in a war that i don't support? why am i paying for schools that i don't have kids in? why am i paying medicare when i don't even have health insurance?


ugh. that's my rant. i'm sure i'm missing something.


someone care to enlighten me?

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Me.

 

[Mr. Credible]

welp... i'm enlightened.


thanks.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

I am glad.

 

[xwolverine2]

hookers

 

[Carcharodon]

why am i paying for schools that i don't have kids in? ?

That one should be obvious: consider it an investment. You're providing for education. The products of the educational system (some, anyways) will grow to perform tasks that keep everything going in the future.

Let me put it this way: doctors.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

okay, i was inspired by another thread...

but, simple enough question... you don't have kids, but you're paying for public school... you don't own a car, but you're paying for roads, you're not going to get social security when you get older, but you're still paying it... there's a war going on that you don't believe in, but you're paying for it...


what the hell are you paying taxes for? i mean, i'm all for paying taxes for fireman, police, etc... because those are things that i do use (well, i don't, but you know what i mean) but why am i paying for some unwed teenage mother who got knocked up to live off of welfare? why am i paying for some $100,000 dollar missle fired in a war that i don't support? why am i paying for schools that i don't have kids in? why am i paying medicare when i don't even have health insurance?


ugh. that's my rant. i'm sure i'm missing something.


someone care to enlighten me?

you live in a society.

duh.

I live in the second floor of an apartment building, I pay maintenance to keep it clean and running smoothly.
part of the maintenance goes to the elevator which I NEVER use, or the outside patio area which in 16 years I've yet to use for a party.

I still pay it.

 

[Manic]

you live in a society.

duh.

I live in the second floor of an apartment building, I pay maintenance to keep it clean and running smoothly.
part of the maintenance goes to the elevator which I NEVER use, or the outside patio area which in 16 years I've yet to use for a party.

I still pay it.

Exactly.

You're not the only person living in this country. You are part of a larger society that needs your money to continue to function.

Even if you don't own a car, I bet you'll still need those roads. Take the bus? Catch a cab? Do you have mail delivered to your house or a PO Box? Do you want grocery stores to receive their shipments of food?

Then you've got schools. If schools aren't properly funded, not as many people with graduate. With less graduations, the work force will diminish greatly. That, or employers will begin to loosen their standards for hiring employees, and their quality of service will diminish. What will you do when your cashier can't do math? When your carpenter measures badly? Less money for public schools means lowering the already abysmal standards in which we hold members of our society.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

okay, i was inspired by another thread...

but, simple enough question... you don't have kids, but you're paying for public school... you don't own a car, but you're paying for roads, you're not going to get social security when you get older, but you're still paying it... there's a war going on that you don't believe in, but you're paying for it...


what the hell are you paying taxes for?i'm sure i'm missing something.


someone care to enlighten me?

It's no rant.Your actually seeing the truth,and the fact that you can't change that fact..unless you move to Europe.Where your dollars will actually pay for good things,and you will be glad to pay.Not like in America where it's taken out of you..even if you don't want it.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It's no rant.Your actually seeing the truth,and the fact that you can't change that fact..unless you move to Europe.Where your dollars will actually pay for good things,and you will be glad to pay.Not like in America where it's taken out of you..even if you don't want it.

Wait a minute. This is just all kinds of f**ked up.

Are you saying that roads, schools, national defense, police, firemen, national parks, public works, etc. aren't good things?

Are you saying that in Europe you don't have to pay taxes to fund schools and build roads?

Mr. Credible isn't seeing the truth. He's just being lazy and only thinking of himself instead of what is good for society as a whole.

 

[hammy]

Taxes should pay for things collectively, that we can not pay for individually, such as infrastructure, public education, defense, etc. Where the problem gets seriously screwed up is when the government gets involved in social engineering and essentially robs Peter to pay Paul (your example of the welfare mom.) This is just one reason why a continuous turnover in congress is necessary. Career politicians benefit most from the power they derive spending your hard earned money.

 

[SoulManX]

Welfare was the worst idea ever that came out of the US government.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

So...service members shouldn't get a paycheck, or food, or housing, or health care, because you don't believe in our current conflict?

 

[Drakon]

Not medicare or disability, that's for sure. :cmad;

 

[kainedamo]

Healthcare.

lol, still confuses me that so many Americans are so passionately against free healthcare.

Its like, how would you feel about actually having to pay the police yourself so they actually get off their asses to help you?

"Guy burgled your house, and you want us to do something about it? That will be $400, please!".

 

[rdh007]

I'm willing to pay for:
-Cops
-Fire
-Army/Navy/Marines/Air Force
-Schools
-Roads
-Parks
-Universal Healthcare


I'm not happy about paying:
-Corporate Welfare
-Farm Subsidies
-Private companies more than soldiers
-Welfare for more than a year
-Marketing campaigns/recruiters for the armed services (Pay soldiers/Marines worth a damn, get involved when and where it counts and they'll recruit themselves)
-I'm real close to telling NASA to stuff it, too. (But not yet)

 

[rdh007]

hookers

We should legalize it (and marijuana) and stop sticking our noses in everyone's business. Cops have better things to do.

 

[Immortalfire]

Wait a minute. This is just all kinds of f**ked up.

Are you saying that roads, schools, national defense, police, firemen, national parks, public works, etc. aren't good things?

Are you saying that in Europe you don't have to pay taxes to fund schools and build roads?

It's just Jourmugand's regular anti-America spew.

 

[Fred_Fury]

if you werent paying for this ******ed war, what would you have to watch on the news every night? how paris hilton picked out her new dress? how long monica lewinsky deep throated bill?

 

[Victarion]

Better yet, why watch the news, Monsieur Fury?

My taxes should not pay for the hospital bill of an illegal alien.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Well... as for roads... owning a car or not.. you use a road one way or another.. sidewalks, buses, taxi's, road for trucks to deliver YOUR goods... face it.. unless you live in a self contained world where everything is 2 feet from you, you use roads car or not.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

some off our taxes should definitely be tucked away for individuals paying them so that they want to have to worry about saving up for the future. maybe automatically invest themin bonds or something.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Healthcare.

lol, still confuses me that so many Americans are so passionately against free healthcare.

Its like, how would you feel about actually having to pay the police yourself so they actually get off their asses to help you?

"Guy burgled your house, and you want us to do something about it? That will be $400, please!".

America also has better healthcare than most place. If you had to pay the police they'd probably do a better job too. If entities have to compete for customers quality usually goes up.

It's obviously too impractical to privatize everything, and it could be better to do so with healthcare for all I know, but it's not like there are no benefits at all to it.

 

[Spade]

I'd have it pay for college. It sure would make things easier right now.

 

[Noir]

Tax Dollars should pay for personal time machines.