by Woeler » July 19th, 2012, 10:54 pm
Fact is you don't have any numbers, you are just wildly guessing because you think you already pay too much taxes. The fact that people are not willing to get such taxes is sad, just plain sad.
Also I don't know where you get your predictions from because all of western Europe and Japan have been functioning extremely well with such laws and taxes. You will always get less money if you do it through charity.
We are one society, we should help each other. Not letting each other die because we are too selfish to miss maybe 30 dollars a month or less. Yes you need taxes to fund school. What you also need taxes for is keeping people healthy, giving people a home and be sure that your population doesn't starve.
A concept called money has overruled our morals as human beings and that is a sad and pathetic thing. It is sad that we no longer give a crap about anyone else... well we do, unless we have to pay.
And for serious, space BS is the first thing that should be cut off by taxes. These things are by far not as important as the own population of a country. The moonlanding is nothing more than a prestige object. I wonder how many people could have gotten an decent home and food to eat for that money.
Taxes for NASA and space travel pfff, we may as well throw the money in a giant bottomless pit. Oh wait, that's whats happening...
Something went horribly wrong in our moral development. Because we now much rather fund space travel than care for actual humans who need it.
it is a very, very sad thing indeed
This is not the country Lee Greenwood sang about, can't be. The concept of a people died...
There are those who complain about the wind, there are those who hope the wind will change, --though the wise-- the wise adjust their sails.