Reply #3: i contend that people wouldn't mind paying taxes so much if.... [View All]

they got anything for their taxes. yes, our tax dollars are supposed to go for roads and schools and so many other things. but here in wny for isnstance.... there isn't one road that doesn't need fixing around here. i can't help but wonder where the money IS going. and it gets me to thinking about why so many get so mad about paying taxes. we aren't seeing where that money is going. like the thruway and it's tolls. they say the tolls go to fix the roads, and yet they get federal tax dollars for that and the grand island bridge just took out a big ass loan to pay for repairs to the bridge. if all the tolls are to fix the roads.... where does all that money go!!! and they'll use the repair and the loans as a reason to have to keep the thruway and it's tolls. but i digress.

i think, and this is even though people may not realize it right now, that if we had domestic programs like a single payer system and our schools were really schools again and things like that.... and our roads actually looked like anyone cared to keep them up.... people would not be so upset about taxes. if we had some visible means to see our dollars at work. but instead all our money is going to bail out banks and fight wars and to maintain armies all over the world. no wonder our deficit keeps going up. though no one seemed to worry about that when bush was doing it for his wars... yes, tax cuts AND two wars... how could that make our deficits soar??!!

i think, as i personally do, that we are being squeezed so much right now. and the taxes keep going up, and yet the roads are all full of potholes and our schools are cutting back and our kids aren't learning..... there are so many reasons why we are all hurting so much. and i think that single payer would help a lot of people. so many stress the health insurance and fighting with the insurance companies. even if we had a true public option i feel that most americans would jump at it... especially as costs rise in regular insurance.