Actually, I believe the issue is the astronomical amount of money going to the fsa.
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Actually, I believe the issue is the astronomical amount of money going to the fsa.
But do you get pie?
How about the 700 billion dollar bail-out? Or the other one? Or the other secret one?
And defense spending would be an even smaller part if the folks in congress (both sides) would stop stuffing things that did not belong in there.
Look at your next pay stub. See where it says FICA? That's the 7.5% of my income I payed into Social Security and Medicare over the 45 years of my work life. 45 years. Every single paycheck. Get it? The people I worked for over those years matched that deduction 1 for 1. And I don't get full payback if my investments and/or pension are ridiculously low. Why do people continue to call those programs entitlements and welfare? Ignorance I guess.
People don't want to pay more taxes. Smart people avoid paying those taxes. Most rich people are smart. Ergo, it would be hard to raise even a small fraction of that from the highest-earners.
We've been over this - that "welfare" number includes a lot of stuff that isn't traditionally considered "welfare" (i.e. some of that includes unemployment, etc.).
The issue of rich/poor taxes is a complete distraction (just like everything else with our two-sided dance to keep everyone confused).
The rich aren't the problem - it's multi-billion dollar public held corporations, many of whom now use a lot of the same channels as drug-smugglers and terrorists to keep money out of US taxable territory. Not small private-owned businesses, I'm talking the big public-entities - they're the one's skirting taxes (and getting bail-outs).
That's where the federal income has been suffering for years (since Clinton and before), and when we allowed all of these tax-breaks (some are just creative loopholes found by corporations with huge teams of legal/accounting folks), we didn't cut spending - we increased it.
We could cut stuff from the budget all day and hike taxes on the rich and poor, but until we get back a good solid revenue from something more solid than just the citizens, we'll never solve this crisis.
If any of those nubs at the occupy Wall Street movements could articulate that fact alone, the world would actually have looked at them as something other than idiots.
The rich aren't the problem - it's multi-billion dollar public held corporations, many of whom now use a lot of the same channels as drug-smugglers and terrorists to keep money out of US taxable territory. Not small private-owned businesses, I'm talking the big public-entities - they're the one's skirting taxes (and getting bail-outs).
That's where the federal income has been suffering for years (since Clinton and before), and when we allowed all of these tax-breaks (some are just creative loopholes found by corporations with huge teams of legal/accounting folks), we didn't cut spending - we increased it.
We could cut stuff from the budget all day and hike taxes on the rich and poor, but until we get back a good solid revenue from something more solid than just the citizens, we'll never solve this crisis.
If any of those nubs at the occupy Wall Street movements could articulate that fact alone, the world would actually have looked at them as something other than idiots.
No surprise to me! I can't wait to pay even higher taxes for that crap!! 
Many of them can and did. Of course, we never heard it, unless you watched youtube or reddit. The media only played the morons, the Daily Show made fun of them, the news made fun of them. Everyone laughed. The articulate people were covered up in the crowd, just like everything else.
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