The Best Place to Spend Your Tax Dollars |
We all know that tax dollars spent locally have the most impact on our lives. So why do we spend such a huge portion of our tax dollars far away from home, even in foreign countries like Iraq.
It's because our politicians are far away from our homes. Politicians are more concerned with the corporations in their constituency than they are with the actual public expenditure in those areas. Imagine what a nice town you would live in if your tax dollars were used to improve your town rather than to build broken projects in Iraq.
Our Republican candidates are busy debating the merits of lower taxes but fail to get to the root of the problem: where our taxes are spent. When Hilary Clinton spoke about government inefficiency, she failed to mention that the main cause behind this problem is the distance between the taxpayer and the government.
How can this be fixed? Quite simply, we need to get the people spending our taxes closer to us. State government needs to stand up to federal government and take back the authority vested in it.
If Louisiana was responsible for the Katrina rebuilding contracts, do you think they would have wasted the money on no-bid contracts for companies in Texas? If the Louisiana government spent the budget in Louisiana, even if it was as inefficient as the federal government, it would have resulted in more jobs and better economic stimulus in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane. Instead we watched the Louisiana governor take the fall while the federal government mismanaged the budgets.
Our governors need to mandate that ALL income taxes, both state and federal, be paid to the State tax authority directly.
Once the state has collected the tax monies and deducted all expenses for both state and federal funded projects, the federal government can be paid with a lump sum payment from the state to cover the tax expenditure related to OUT OF STATE expenses.
In addition to shifting the IRS and treasury jobs from Washington to local state jobs, this method of tax collection and payment would encourage states to require lean and efficient federal government and naturally reward those states that run an efficient government for their people.
There is no constitutional mandate that says the Federal Government must collect the taxes. So why do we let a bloated and distant force exert such control over our lives.
Keep our tax dollars close to home and make our country better. Let the federal government come to the states with open arms justifying their need for a check each year and let the states spend our hard earned taxes where they belong - in our own backyard.
It's because our politicians are far away from our homes. Politicians are more concerned with the corporations in their constituency than they are with the actual public expenditure in those areas. Imagine what a nice town you would live in if your tax dollars were used to improve your town rather than to build broken projects in Iraq.
Our Republican candidates are busy debating the merits of lower taxes but fail to get to the root of the problem: where our taxes are spent. When Hilary Clinton spoke about government inefficiency, she failed to mention that the main cause behind this problem is the distance between the taxpayer and the government.
How can this be fixed? Quite simply, we need to get the people spending our taxes closer to us. State government needs to stand up to federal government and take back the authority vested in it.
If Louisiana was responsible for the Katrina rebuilding contracts, do you think they would have wasted the money on no-bid contracts for companies in Texas? If the Louisiana government spent the budget in Louisiana, even if it was as inefficient as the federal government, it would have resulted in more jobs and better economic stimulus in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane. Instead we watched the Louisiana governor take the fall while the federal government mismanaged the budgets.
Our governors need to mandate that ALL income taxes, both state and federal, be paid to the State tax authority directly.
Once the state has collected the tax monies and deducted all expenses for both state and federal funded projects, the federal government can be paid with a lump sum payment from the state to cover the tax expenditure related to OUT OF STATE expenses.
In addition to shifting the IRS and treasury jobs from Washington to local state jobs, this method of tax collection and payment would encourage states to require lean and efficient federal government and naturally reward those states that run an efficient government for their people.
There is no constitutional mandate that says the Federal Government must collect the taxes. So why do we let a bloated and distant force exert such control over our lives.
Keep our tax dollars close to home and make our country better. Let the federal government come to the states with open arms justifying their need for a check each year and let the states spend our hard earned taxes where they belong - in our own backyard.
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