[quote="Woeler1"]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 horrible wrong in our moral development. Because we now much rather fund space travel than care for actual humans who need it.
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Oh, please! At least $10 trillion has been since the War on Poverty to help those impoverished according to this source. I'm sure the Apollo 11 programs wouldn't nearly cost that much if it were to be performed again today.
Face it! The government has done more than enough to help fight the war on poverty! It's not obviously working when the poverty rate is higher than it's been in recent years, and the President still wants to press on by giving more "government assistance" to them by taxing the rich.
Not don't you get me wrong, I'm all for the government to help those in poverty, but the poor need to learn to help themselves.