closeupready
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:28 AM
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So why not have a fee-based war department? |
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Because I'd like to opt-out of using my tax money for that.
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HopeHoops
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:32 AM
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1. We already do - it is called the 1040. |
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As far as I know, every effort to adjust tax payments based on line-item expenditures has failed in the courts - including the presidential line-item veto. That one, however, is funny. The GOP screamed for YEARS to get the line-item veto passed. The only president to get to use it was Clinton and they screamed because he cheated by using it. Ahem. "GOP - FUCK YOU!"
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:33 AM
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2. we do and it is another example of fucking us up good. nt |
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:34 AM
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:37 AM
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4. Yep, I'd make a deal. The DOD doesn't have to protect me from all of those |
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terrorists,commies, and things, and I don't have to pay for their existence.
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:42 AM
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5. About a week ago there was a short piece on 'Marketplace' |
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about some anti-tax group that wants the government to issue itemized receipts showing exactly what your tax $$ were spent on. They did a sample return for a $50,000 income and found that a pretty good portion went to funding operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That would probably change a few minds . . .
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:45 AM
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6. Of course, some (many?) defense contractors would lobby heavily against transparency. |
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but I agree, this would change minds.
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:53 AM
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7. Exactly. Talk about "redistribution of wealth." War takes from the poor and gives to ... Blackwater. |
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