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6/6/2014 2:24:16 PM
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Would you prefer to choose where your taxes went?
Just a general hypothetical here, if you could choose exactly which governmental department or institute got your taxes, where would you choose to send them?
Often I hear people in Britain complain about how "My taxes are paying for benefit cheats and immigrants" or "These roads are terrible, where do my taxes go?" and all that nonsensical jazz. So I thought why couldn't we choose where our taxes went?
Obviously if you could see potential problems with that, go ahead and give criticism or better solutions, it would be interesting to see what the Flood thinks. If you don't pay taxes, vote anyway.
[b]TL;DR[/b] [i]Where would you want you taxes to go to (if you had to pay)?[/i]
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in order of priority - -research -welfare -management/transport
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Really hm a lot more toward research than I thought also research and defense can be under the same sometimes
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45% welfare (not corporate welfare) 10% transportation 30% management 15% research
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Edited by Bistromathics: 6/6/2014 10:16:20 PMI and most other people don't know enough about the issues or how to fund programs that can solve them. Even when we do, there's no guarantee that a large group can be rational enough to fund the things that need money. In theory, this is why we have representatives: they're motivated and intelligent individuals who are going to make it their jobs to become educated and act on our behalf. In practice, that doesn't always work out.
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The only issue with choosing were are taxes go is that certain things won't be spent on as much as other things. For example if you look at the votes above you can see that research is voted on more than anything else and transportation is voted on the least. Giving us bad roads, bus services, side walks, rail roads, sub ways, and so on. While we have good medicine and heath care, technology, and space research. It's a difficult topic but really either way you look at it we'll still be annoyed and still be complaining about this tax topic.
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that would be suicidal for America not like its going amazing anyway
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The government is the most inefficient, wasteful, incompetent spender I have ever seen. It has proved its incompetence for thousands of years, yet people still act as is ever dollar they spend is planned carefully.
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15 RepliesOf course not, that's downright retarded and defeats the whole point of taxes.
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Research and education. America needs to become smart if it wants to be at the top again.
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Edited by b0t: 6/6/2014 9:32:48 PMIf there was no taxes, we could do that. OT: Defense. It's the only legitimate role for federal government.
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Management.
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Edited by SecondClass: 6/6/2014 9:12:40 PMPeople who vote anything other than management are legit retarded
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In my wallet
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Yeah, I'd like them to go back to me :) But right now, management followed by health care.
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2 RepliesSince most of Ontario (Canada) is fine (Construction for buses and sewage is fine along with defence and we have free healthcare) I would have to say Research to find new energy resources.
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No, I(and more than likely, anyone else here) am not qualified to make that decision. But I would like to know exactly [b]where [/b]my particular dollars go, just for curiosity sake.
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No. It's a decision the people are not intelligent enough to make.
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If people could choose there would be so many underfunded areas of government, pretty much ruining everything.
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Other. I would like mine to be spread out among the Poll options.
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SCIENCE! Defiantly science.
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1 ReplyBack into my wallet
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I read that as 'taxis', and was about to reply with 'No, I'd prefer them to take me to a mystery location not of my own choosing'.
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Probably research. Research and defence are probably the two most (perhaps only) worthwhile and important government functions.
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2 RepliesPeople in democracies do choose where their tax money goes.
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3 RepliesEducation, Healthcare, Management, and Research. I can't decide on just one, so I'd like to have it evenly distributed between these four.
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1 ReplyEdited by DeclinedA01: 6/6/2014 4:13:08 PMThe government's primary purpose is national security. It's conceivable that the other could exist without a government. For example, if a bunch of people wanted a road, those people can pay to have someone build it. However, I have no incentive to build a missile defense system for some guy in another state. All those categories are important, however.
