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Baltimore Sun Suggests Higher Taxes - Wrong Again!I find the Sun’s claim that “Americans have made it clear that they want a government that can field a strong military and also maintain popular programs such as Medicare, yet we are not paying nearly enough taxes to support these programs” dubious, at best. I believe most Americans are willing to pay for a strong defense, and programs such as Medicare. What many Americans are not willing to pay for is: · billions of dollars in foreign aid · a public education budget that has increased by 800% over the last 40 years, while the population has increased by 50% and America’s scholastic standing in the world has continued to decline · tens of millions of dollars given to groups like ACORN that should not now or ever have been funded at the federal government level · billions of dollars unaccounted for (the Department of the Treasury’s 2003 Financial Report of the United States Government explains that unreconciled transactions (read unaccounted for money) totaled $24.5 billion in 2003), millions more wasted in government credit card abuse or embezzlement. Baltimore has had similar problems on a smaller scale, particularly regarding the education budget. · Tens of billions of dollars in defaulted student loans And the list goes on, and on, and on. It’s really just laughable that the Sun would pretend that raising taxes is the only way to get the services that are rightfully funded by the federal government. I think the 3 billion in Maryland earmarks recently spotlighted by the Sun are a prime example of what’s wrong. The fact is, the government is a sloppy monstrosity that continues to grow and pass debt burden to future generations while the parasites that enable the mess drop balloons and cheer at the end of each legislative session. To consider raising taxes on the middle class without addressing the spending component of the problem is quite ridiculous.
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