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in government •  7 years ago  (edited)

I'm sure everyone can agree that the U.S. government is so obnoxiously big that it is sucking the life out of its citizens. After they take State, Federal and Social Security tax you are already out at least 20%-30% of your hard earned money. But let's not forget to add in sales tax, property tax, gas tax, vehicle gas, alcohol tax, cigarette tax, and every other tax you could possibly imagine and we easily pay more than 50% in taxes!!! That's HALF of the money you should be taking home to your family just given to our government to WASTE however they see fit.
You have to understand that government has very different rules about money than normal business. Let me explain, if these agencies don't spend all the money they are granted that fiscal year then they get a smaller budget the next year, so yes, they do WASTE a lot of tax payers money. But no one in the government cares about cost of anything because WE (the people) always flip the bill! whether we like it or not. So I thought it would be fun to think of a few agencies that would get the axe first if WE the people got to decide how our taxes were spent. (Comment below)

So if you could decide how your tax money was spent, what agency would you get rid of first?

Let's start with everyone's big brother, the NSA? This agency spies on its OWN citizens, and apparently that is suppose to keep us "safe" from terrorism? (Still cant figure that out?) I honestly can't believe the NSA continues to get funding after what Edward Snowden told us about that agency. Seriously, where are all the angry people?

Maybe the DEA? Should we be paying for a failed drug war? Aren't we suppose to be FREE to pursue happiness? I personally don't think throwing drug addicts in jail solves anything, BUT it does cost us an insane amount of money to incarcerate them all every year and I don't want to pay for that. And lets be honest, most of the hard drugs are brought in to this country by the government anyhow. So what's the point of it? Really? Oh and don't forget to read this not so little thing about the DEA...... (READ IMAGE)

At the very least leave the marijuana alone.... Seriously, that is actually helping sick people. Are these the actions you want to support with your hard earned tax dollars? I know I don't. I thought we lived in the land of the free? Maybe it should be changed to the land of the highest incarceration rate in the world. (Oh and don't forget we also pay for all of them with......you got it, OUR tax dollars!!)

On to the CIA?

This is the government agency bringing mass amounts of drugs into our country to pay for secret wars! They also over throw governments and make regime changes without authority from any branch of the government or from the American people! Ultimately causing many of these 'terrorist' groups to form, which is (ironically enough) exactly what the CIA was set up to STOP!?! Not create or fund!! (If you don't believe me look it up, it is well documented).

Does sending our own people to jail (with drugs the government brought into this country and then sold to its citizens) seem like a good way to spend our tax dollars? Because the government wants to pay for secret wars the people don't support? Am I the only person who is fed up with this? When are the people going to say enough with wasting our hard earned money?

How about we get rid of the corporate prostitutes like the FDA?

And the CDC?

These agencies don't do what people have been indoctrinated to think they do. They help set up and protect monopolies and keep competition out. For a big enough check they approve any thing you. They will bribe 'scientists' to make up data to support the lies so they can sell their poison products to you at insane profits with no repercussions. They even protect the people who have been maiming and killing children with the toxic cocktails' they call vaccines! Are those things you want your tax dollars spent on?

Please don't take my word for it, I want everyone to do the research for themselves! Here's a list to start. Or find your own list, I don't care JUST RESEARCH everything!! Especially when it comes to your child. Don't trust anything going into your child with out fully researching it yourself, don't take anyones word for it, not even doctors!
Do it to prove me wrong if that's what it takes.. I don't care.. (sorry about the rant back to the point)

Is how the government should be spending our tax dollars?

There are far to many agencies for me to go over so I just named some of the few big agencies. If you want to add any put it in the comments below.
The truth is we are drowning in taxes and debt. Something needs to change or we are going to be crushed by the government debt and America will cease to be the great nation it once was.

I don't know if choosing to get rid of one agency or another will make any difference. What we really need is to change how we think about government and taxes all together. Until then, none of this will change. I hope it's not to late.

peace, love n all that hippie shit

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A case could also be made for the US Dept of Agriculture, or as Joel Salatin likes to call them, US DUH. Subsidies for GMO corn that is turned into high fructose corn syrup and added to everything bad for us like soda. That corn is grown in places like Illinois where heavy doses of chemicals are added and then wash into our rivers and water supplies. The land is stripped every year and left completely naked for 6 months out of the year, when it should be growing plants that absorb carbon dioxide that would help guard against climate change.

USDA policies protect Big Agriculture and make it almost impossible for a small family farms to sell anything they raise on their own property. Processing requirements have forced local butchers out of business, so now livestock go to massive processing plants and if one animal is tainted, the thousands that go after it are exposed leading to gigantic amounts of meat recalls every year. Allowing corporations, like Monsanto, to patent seeds and plants and then to prosecute any farmer who saves his won seeds from one year to the next, or to prosecute neighboring farmers where those patented seeds blew onto their land and grew on their own.

Food freedom would be a huge boost for economy. Just stopping the subsidies to ag which is actually harming humans and our planet would be beneficial also. And ending the food stamp program would put that responsibility back to the states and communities who can handle feeding the poor a lot more efficiently than bureaucrats in D.C.

I'd probably go with the DEA or CIA or IRS, but the US DUH is right there too.

Oh man, I can't believe I forgot to mention them! You are absolutely right, I wish I could add your comment to my post. I upvoted it first so hopefully lots of people will read your comment right after the post :) thanks for the great addition to the list!

Thanks, I'm just happy to add to the discussion. You hit all the best points about some of these agencies, I've just been more angry at the USDA lately. :)

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It's hard to quantify the amount of damage different agencies inflict, but my vote would be the DEA. A war on drugs is a war on your own citizens. A war on the sick and helpless. A war on freedom

I have to agree with you on all those points for sure!

great post

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