My version of why Federal taxes are "so high" [View All]

[ThomWV]

Notice I said this is "my version" of why Federal taxes are as hight as they are. Its perfectly fine to disagree.

The reason Federal taxes are as high as they are is because the Federal Government is forced to provide services that properly would be provided by the States, but that at the State level politicians are absolutely unwilling to tax their own people enough to pay for the services they demand.

It is the Republicans who most often exploit this and the Tea Baggers can't seem to absorb it.

From education to food inspection, from public transportation to environmental protection, there is a myriad of services that the Federal Government provides vast amounts of funding to do things that the states should already be doing for their own people - but are not. The States won't take responsibility for those (and other) problem areas and they won't tax their own people to address them. Instead they rely on the Feds to pay. And what is so absurd about it is that in many cases they then complain about the high rate of Federal taxation and federal involvement in local matters while they spend the money the Fed hands down.

They love their "State's Rights" but they have no intention of assuming "State's Responsibilities". Our problem has never been over spending, it has always been under taxation.

If the States are unwilling to tax their people to pay for the services that the people require then they have no business disparaging the Federal Government for taking on the task, and they particularly have no business then saying that what the Federal Government is doing is not among the enumerated powers and thus the State's responsibility.

Then they add insult to injury by trying to cut the rates of Federal taxation, which is used to pay for the services for which they are responsible but won't provide, to a level too low to cover providing for their own people and will then use the degradation of services as ammunition for further cuts. Its as if the whole damned world has been turned upside down and shook real hard 'till its brain rattled loose and fell to ground to be eaten by the great dog gods.