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Originally Posted by nation-x
In general, I don't really think that people really think like that... in reality, people want services but don't want the government to tax anyone to pay for them.
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I do want services. But not all of the ones we get.
For instance I see a lot of greed and corruption in city and county govt.
And in the state...it's worse.
And when it hits federal level it's just out of control. Everybody is making money hand over fist at that level.
And it's all being taken from the people who actually earned it.
I don't want to be lobbing expensive cruise missiles at Libya. Or flying expensive fighter jets at millions of dollars a week over them either. But our tax money is being used to do that and to fill the coffers of arms dealers and munitions manufacturers.
In my jaded view...it's ALL about the money. Actual govt. services are essential. But not Nancy Pelosi flying around in a private jet while she was house speaker. Or Bush invading Iraq (or even Afghanistan...we didn't need to attack and occupy an entire country) or Obama now increasing our forces to occupy Afghanistan and now doing this in Libya while he was down in Brazil on the taxpayer dime.