The subject of taxes in America has been a big pill to swallow for many Americans, especially the working class. It is true that many good things come out of certain taxes, but is that the whole story? Do all of our tax dollars go to the right things? Is our government even using our tax dollars for good purposes? I read a book over the summer by Bill O’Reilly, the famous TV correspondent who has his own television show called The O’Reilly Factor. In his book he discussed the heavy topic of America’s taxing system under the Clinton administration. Did you know that our government couldn’t compensate for forty-eight billion dollars? It does not know where it is, so they say, and the politicians will not show us, American citizens who pay the taxes, the record books on how they spend our tax money. Do you, as an American taxpayer, have the right to know how your tax dollars are sp
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” Well folks I consider billions of dollars being flushed down the toilet as something broke. People look at the new tax and think, “Well it’s going to my benefit. It is responsible for the death of seven soldiers and has wounded over thirty, does that deter the government in spending more of our tax money? What do you think? They are still spending our tax money trying to work out the kinks. Why not use that money on something useful, like building better schools for kids and raise the salary of teachers and policeman.
Many people might feel that our tax system is a good one that provides us with needs that suite us, such as parks and welfare, and I’m not arguing with that, it does. Where is the money going? I can tell you right now its not going to the places that need it the most. The government spent 4 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money, and the thing still doesn’t fly right. Anything from alcohol to a jukebox, that’s right the government even puts a three-cent tax on jukeboxes. Another hot topic is the space program. Lets look at Arkansas for instance. ent? The government sure doesn’t think so. Why should we pay taxes to help NASA? Honestly, what are we getting out of it? Why do we care so much about outer space and wanting to go there? Yet we still pour billions of dollars into the program every year.
The government has a tax on everything now. Arkansas pays the government all those tax dollars, and we still have the worst roads and highways in America, not to mention our educational system is dead last out of the fifty states.
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