How Tea Party tax cuts are turning Kansas into a smoking ruin

[AAAintheBeltway]

Why is it that the amount of money government urgently requires to avoid absolute and total catastrophe seems to go up relentlessly, year after year?

And why is it that companies routinely can make cuts in their expenses when times are tough, but government cannot?

 

[Ricter]

Why is it that the amount of money government urgently requires to avoid absolute and total catastrophe seems to go up relentlessly, year after year?

And why is it that companies routinely can make cuts in their expenses when times are tough, but government cannot?

Population growth?

Government cut a lot of employees this recession.

 

[dbphoenix]

1. Prices rise. Relentlessly. Year after year. Absent deflation.

2. Companies don't provide services that are paid for by tax revenue. Their services are paid for by the end user.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Other than CEOs, hedge fund managers, ball players and university administrators, incomes have been stagnant for many years. So governments at all levels want a bigger slice of our income. And for what? Are we getting good value for the vast sums wasted on education for example?

 

[dbphoenix]

Shut down all the schools and find out. The rich benefit from an ignorant population after all.

 

[Ricter]

Other than CEOs, hedge fund managers, ball players and university administrators, incomes have been stagnant for many years. So governments at all levels want a bigger slice of our income. And for what? Are we getting good value for the vast sums wasted on education for example?

Profits have not been stagnant, so where's the money?

 

[Ricter]

Shut down all the schools and find out. The rich benefit from an ignorant population after all.

I gotta disagree on that one. Higher skilled employees support fatter margins.

 

[dbphoenix]

I gotta disagree on that one. Higher skilled employees support fatter margins.

I wasn't referring to highly-skilled employees but the general population. After all, if the population were educated, the entire right-wing media empire would collapse tomorrow.

 

[gwb-trading]

I wasn't referring to highly-skilled employees but the general population. After all, if the population were educated, the entire right-wing media empire would collapse tomorrow.

You do realize that the majority of scientists and engineers in the US vote Republican.

 

[Ricter]

You do realize that the majority of scientists and engineers in the US vote Republican.

Hopefully education would rise, not just training.