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02-01-2010, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by jcarlilesiu
Education training and social services = Not federal governments job
Health = Not the federal governments job
Income security = Not the federal governments job
Other = Most likely not the federal governments job
Eliminate those items in your pie graph, putting those responsibilities on the states (where they should be per the Constitution) and we will wipe this debt out pretty swiftly.
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02-01-2010, 03:43 PM
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Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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No wonder Colorado Springs couldn't raise taxes. The proposed tax to raise was on property and increased three times at that. A lot of property owners highly resent such taxes. The more property tax you pay, the more it seems you're paying rent to the government on a home you own.
Instead, Colorado Springs should have tried raising sales taxes, temporarily. That way, everyone would share the responsibility in relieving the city's budget woes, not just property owners.
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02-01-2010, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie
No wonder Colorado Springs couldn't raise taxes. The proposed tax to raise was on property and increased three times at that. A lot of property owners highly resent such taxes. The more property tax you pay, the more it seems you're paying rent to the government on a home you own.
Instead, Colorado Springs should have tried raising sales taxes, temporarily. That way, everyone would share the responsibility in relieving the city's budget woes, not just property owners.
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Because people that have a roof over their heads don't pay property taxes?
The apartment owners and land lords just absorb that cost, they don't pass it along in the form of higher rents.....LOL
LOL Oklahoma schools! |
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02-01-2010, 04:21 PM
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Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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No. It's called right wing brainwashing.
Military spending is absurdly out of control and is a much much bigger share of the pie than domestic spending.
Discretionary spending, 1977-2009 | National Priorities Project (http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Discretionary%20spending%201977-2007 - broken link)
Right wing lemmings have been programmed to reject prudent tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations while at the same time smearing anyone who dares criticize the defense budget as "caving into terrorism".
These white right wing voters of Colorado Spring proudly vote for the GOP who will grow the defense budget while cutting basic middle class services.
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relevance: Relevance - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
I'd highly suggest you study it prior to mentioning military spending in a thread YOU created about a city's budget...  |
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02-01-2010, 04:28 PM
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I highly suggest you follow the thread in context and see just who brought up Federal spending. They went off on a tangent and I answered them. |
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