My taxes go to things like road construction, education, police, fire, etc, etc. If we weren't paying taxes how do you think those things would be funded? Charity? Good luck with that.
Again, if you don't like the tax system in this country move to one that has all the benefits we have in the US and doesn't tax your income. Let us know when you find it.
Since most of that money will be usurped from White middle class America and a majority of it will go to Africa it sure seems more like this is really just a round about way for a Black man to stick it to the White man and benefit the Black man while he is at it than a ?noble? cause
This will likely be typical of the covert minority favoring agendas he will carry out if elected President so we might as well get used to it because he is practically elected already.
BeauJangles
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He couldn't favor bills that help the less fortunate because he's a democrat and a liberal. Nah, that can't be it, it must be because he's black and hates white people!
Socio, unless my sarcasm meter is broken, your post is one of the most covertly (like my use of the word?) racist I've read on Anandtech.
Throckmorton
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Throckmorton
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No we don't. If anything, we consider foreign aid is an issue of national security. I'm 100% sure that Condoleeza Rice will agree with me that foreign aid makes us safer, and she herself said that it's the right thing to do.
I thought the Iraq war was a huge foreign aid operation. Iraqi freedom and all that... We're spending quite a nation building, which is a GOOD thing unless you're some Ron Paul internet zombie.
Exactly.
Billions of dollars are donated by American citizens and government every year overseas (UNICEF is a popular target), but unfortunately most of this money ends up in directors salaries or like the only person said, dictators of the developing world...
You want to end poverty Obama? Stop supporting the countries that host it. You can forget Africa because nobody can touch that, but China and the Asia still has potential to be fixed. End our blind support for China, India, and Pakistan, force other nations to comply with international standards or face deadly repercussions.
Policing the world is the only way to end poverty, not throwing money at the problem. But in the end the only that thing that's going to do is CONTINUE the problem. Contributing the the vicious cycle is not the proper way to do things Harvard Man.
Why don't we allocate .7% of our budget to impoverished AMERICANS. Not stupid social programs or welfare, but charitable organizations that provide resources necessary to get this people off the streets and into the work force. That's where we should be going, not f**king Africa.
Home team is #1. Not #2, not #1.5, #1!!
Stupid Obama. Seriously the guy is riding on his race and that's it. No I'm not a racist, but this is a blatant fact.
Is it not plausable that it can be both;
The fact that he is sponsoring a bill that will deliberately target funds mostly derived from middle class America which is predominantly White and will largely benefit African nations which are predominantly black speaks for it self.
I never said he hates White people but I do believe he like most every Black American in the US sports a White chip on his shoulder and thus consciously or subconsciously feels the White man owes and is obligated to make them pay. If so he is simply killing two birds with one stone, helping the less fortunate and making the White man pay for it, fulfilling his conscious/subconscious obligation.
Meh, just cut down on the ridiculously bloated military budget a little 
The military is already eating up more than half of your tax dollar.
The military is already eating up more than half of your tax dollar.
I'm sure that an average American won't have a problem with their tax money going towards things that improve their lives. I can see a problem that the average American might have with their money being freely given out over seas.
The Income Tax is just a tangled mess. Its completely unfair, complicated, and terribly inefficient. If you don't realize how horrible the Income Tax is then I'm really not sure what to tell you.
Last thing, we shouldn't have to "move" out of this country. I hold the idea that our forefathers envisioned a free society where one didn't have move to find freedom and happiness. No thanks, I'll rather stay and fight flawed policies in the country I was born in. We had a perfectly functioning society (we even had roads!) before without all the government pork we have today so there's no reason we can't scale back and still freely prosper.
Sounds similar to Obama's campaign platform. I'm actually waiting for the specifics. He doesn't have much of a true record of leadership where we could even marginally fill in the blanks.
Nemesis 1
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I can't believe some of the replies in this thread.
First you don't give a starving man fish . You teach him how to fish.
Second the federal tax law is unconstitutional to start with. Sharing wealth isn't capitalism ists socialism. To top it off . Its not the rich they want to share the wealth its the average persons money they want . BOTH sides .
THe federal government was never intended to be this Hugh ugly evil beast that it is now. Run by evil doers (lawyers). Wake up smell the roses . Lawyers Dems and Rep. Use double speak to duke the American People. Its time to put down our differances and pick up our guns. Without revolution soon we are doomed. Go back to our orgins and only add one new law. NO lawyers in allowed in the running of the government.
I personally If I had 1 wish . I would wish every lawyer every where was dead.
The world would be much better place.
First you don't give a starving man fish . You teach him how to fish.
Second the federal tax law is unconstitutional to start with. Sharing wealth isn't capitalism ists socialism. To top it off . Its not the rich they want to share the wealth its the average persons money they want . BOTH sides .
THe federal government was never intended to be this Hugh ugly evil beast that it is now. Run by evil doers (lawyers). Wake up smell the roses . Lawyers Dems and Rep. Use double speak to duke the American People. Its time to put down our differances and pick up our guns. Without revolution soon we are doomed. Go back to our orgins and only add one new law. NO lawyers in allowed in the running of the government.
I personally If I had 1 wish . I would wish every lawyer every where was dead.
The world would be much better place.
ProfJohn
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That was either a joke or you are totally ignorant.Originally posted by: GrGr
Meh, just cut down on the ridiculously bloated military budget a little
The military is already eating up more than half of your tax dollar.
The military eats up about 20% of our Federal budget.
When you include state and local taxes, which are not quite the same amount as the Federal budget, you can figure out that around 10% of 'tax dollars' goes to defense.
You know what though? Giving money like that would probably do more to stop terrorism than anything the military can do.
How does 0.7% compare with current US military spending? It's probably a drop in the bucket.
That's a sick and ignorant view.
First, the lawyers do some essential good, too. If a negligent doctor makes your wife infertile, do you want someone representing her? Do you want the laws of the land to make any sense, or do you want the chaos that not having any clear laws would bring? Do you want the Supreme Court who interprets the laws to have any legal abilities?
Second, your rage is misplaced in large part - the lawyers are the peons of the powerful interests who pay them to do the things you don't like. You're not attacking the cause - and you are of course not saying anything useful regardless. Why don't you get informed a little more and look at the issues in a more informed manner, and better get an idea what might help, which has more to do with a need for populist, informed politics against the concentration of wealth and power?
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