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What is the best place for our tax money to go?

What is the best place for our tax money to go?

  • Defense/Military

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Lower Class

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Government Employees

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    12

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What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life? and please justify your answer.

1. Education

2. Defense/Military

3. Our Pocket's

4. The Lower Class

5. Government Employees

6. Technology/Research

7. Public Transportation

8. The Environment

9. Health Care
 
What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life? and please justify your answer.

1. Education

2. Defense/Military

3. Our Pocket's

4. The Lower Class

5. Government Employees

6. Technology/Research

7. Public Transportation

8. The Environment

9. Health Care


You should have #10 In our own pockets
 
What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life? and please justify your answer.

1. Education

2. Defense/Military

3. Our Pocket's

4. The Lower Class

5. Government Employees

6. Technology/Research

7. Public Transportation

8. The Environment

9. Health Care

Apparently welfare, both private and corporate
 
What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life? and please justify your answer.

1. Education

2. Defense/Military

3. Our Pocket's

4. The Lower Class

5. Government Employees

6. Technology/Research

7. Public Transportation

8. The Environment

9. Health Care
 
this is fail..... im newb......... but i figured out how to poll now
 
this is the actual poll
 
What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life? and please justify your answer.

1. Education

2. Defense/Military

3. Our Pocket's

4. The Lower Class

5. Government Employees

6. Technology/Research

7. Public Transportation

8. The Environment

9. Health Care

Of the things you listed, I'd rank them in order of priority:
1. Technology/research
2. Public transportation
3. Education
4. Health care
5. The environment
6. The lower class
7. Our pockets
8. Defense/military
9. Government employees


One very important thing that was left off the list was our communications infrastructure, such as the national broadband initiative...so I chose to lump that in with technology/research. If that had been included, it would probably be #1.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "the lower class." That's pretty vague. I support providing health care and education to those who can't afford them, but since health care and education were both separate options I'm assuming that's not what you're talking about. Could you be more specific - are we talking about unemployment benefits? Food stamps? Subsidized housing? The Earned Income Tax Credit? My ranking of that item could go up or down depending on what we're talking about.
 
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So for me, I would have to say education. The very very very close second is #3 In Our Own Pocket's.

The reason education is the single most efficient method per dollar spent is because it directly attributes to lowering birthrate's, decreasing poverty, lowering crime-rate, increasing number of graduate's, promoting more competition, and countless more. I remember my economic's professor a year ago proposed that education literally fixes all aspects of poverty in an area.

If you have a poor, highly populated, dilapidated area and you place high quality education facilities in the area it would by every standard drastically help every aspect of that community and you never know, even the country as a whole. It is a well established fact that birthrate's decrease when the community is more educated, and the decrease in birthrates decrease's the crime-rate and any number of negative impacts of a poor community.
 
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Merged the twp threads so it's all together now with a working poll.
 
Apparently welfare, both private and corporate
Why should our tax dollars go to welfare? Do you mean foodstamps and such? Please specify
 
Abortions duh!!!

No seriously, a combination of all those things, plus things that aren't on the list.
 
Most of the selections i tried to fit a broad idea since there really are billions of options you could choose. But for the Lower class one i intended it to group all funding that specifically target's the lower class, usually at the cost of the upper or maybe middle class too's tax dollar's. It equal's in broadness of Own Pocket's and is kind of the polar opposite response i would say? Im glad you had your own specific answer because i want this more of a discussion with the fun of a poll.
 
Abortions duh!!!

No seriously, a combination of all those things, plus things that aren't on the list.

so your satisfied on the percentages of how they spend for things currently?
 
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so your satisfied on the percentages of how they spend for things currently?

I didn't say that, and you didn't ask that, you just asked if those things are worth our tax money, and I say yes.

And no I'm not, to answer your question.
 
Of the things you listed, I'd rank them in order of priority:
One very important thing that was left off the list was our communications infrastructure, such as the national broadband initiative...so I chose to lump that in with technology/research. If that had been included, it would probably be #1.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "the lower class." That's pretty vague. I support providing health care and education to those who can't afford them, but since health care and education were both separate options I'm assuming that's not what you're talking about. Could you be more specific - are we talking about unemployment benefits? Food stamps? Subsidized housing? The Earned Income Tax Credit? My ranking of that item could go up or down depending on what we're talking about.

Hmmm. I would argue the communications infrastructure should be managed by private companies, because there is natural incentive to always get more customers. That's how the infrastructure got to where it is today. I think decreasing in taxes on business's would completely cover for the need of improvement. This is something that business's get an advantage if their communication's are superior for contact/advertisement purpose's.

Promote Capitalism
 
I didn't say that, and you didn't ask that, you just asked if those things are worth our tax money, and I say yes.

And no I'm not, to answer your question.

"What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life?"

im pretty sure i am clear? I ask "what categories funding" - which suggest's that each category get's funding...the word increase mean's "an addition of a quantity that was added" so in addition to what things already are, otherwise the word would be meaningless or suggest we are starting at nothing.
 
I didn't say that, and you didn't ask that, you just asked if those things are worth our tax money, and I say yes.

And no I'm not, to answer your question.

With the poll question, it ask's "What is the best place for our tax money to go."

I am not asking for multiple answer's, but simply asking the 'best' on your list for which our tax money should go. I don't believe it suggest's all, because then the word 'best' would be pointless... what's the point of being the best if you are the only one.

If you just can't decide what you would consider the best that's fine, but i don't think the question suggest's tossing all the money in one category.
 
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"What category's funding should be increased at a higher degree above all other's in order to improve our economy/quality of life?"

I didn't read the OP, just the poll, my bad. If anything will improve the economy in this kind of downturn it would be something like a New Deal era work program.
 
Why should our tax dollars go to welfare? Do you mean foodstamps and such? Please specify

A P P A R E N T L Y



Is not that difficult to distinguish and confuse with.....


S H O U L D



Which was not communicated anywhere.



Do the math, this nation is 14 trillion in debt, after it has wasted 15.9 Trillion on Welfare alone (with the net result, one in every seven US CITIZENS living in poverty and the poverty index the greatest in history, over 15% since the stats were first calculated in the 60s, not counting Social Security, and Medicare or Education expenditures) all this over the last few decades alone, more than twice the 6.3 Trillion used in all the wars in US HISTORY from the revolution to date. Apparently our taxes are for the promotion of a nanny welfare state, We the People just invested 3.27 Trillion on Corporate Welfare (stimulus bill) and has passed a budget to spend another 10.3 Trillion on individual welfare over the next decade, and all this while declaring class warfare on success in business and capitalism, the engine that drives the economy . Its not rocket science, its PROGRESS(ive) intellect.

Obama to Spend $10.3 Trillion on Welfare: Uncovering the Full Cost of Means-Tested Welfare or Aid to the Poor | The Heritage Foundation

True Cost of Stimulus: $3.27 Trillion | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
 
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Well im not gonna go off on that one, but basically there is a lot of disagreement that FDR's New Deal was the worst Deal ever made... but thats for a different thread.
 
Well im not gonna go off on that one, but basically there is a lot of disagreement that FDR's New Deal was the worst Deal ever made... but thats for a different thread.

FDRs DEAL, was parroted verbatim from the Communist Manifesto, as the USSR constitution, articles 40- 46, mirror the SUPPOSED SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS that was used to sale and promote the New (communist) Deal of FDR, that he pushed through using the Supreme Court only after loading it down with left wing progressives.....sound familiar? If such a position was authorized by our Constitution why introduce the legislation as a SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS...the bill of rights are amendments to the constitution, and as of today there is not one Amendment authorizing a nanny welfare states as laid out in the Second Bill of Rights.

As far as where our tax dollars go today....as I said, its not rocket science, its laid out in clear unambiguous documented accounting coming straight from the horses mouth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
 
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Sorted by priority:

The Environment
Education
Technology/Research
The Lower Class
Our Pocket's
Public Transportation
Government Employees

Not addressing the problem of the environment (whether you accept man-caused global warming or not) is going to bite us in the ass and make most other problems secondary if we don't deal with it.

Walter said:
FDRs DEAL, was parroted verbatim from the Communist Manifesto, as the USSR constitution, articles 40- 46, mirror the SUPPOSED SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS that was used to sale and promote the New (communist) Deal of FDR, that he pushed through using the Supreme Court only after loading it down with left wing progressives.....sound familiar?
It was not communist primarily because of the fact that he did not advocate completely stamping out the private sector. In order for it to be anything close to communism, it must first fulfill the requirement of everything being under the public sector.
 
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Money should go into our pockets first. Those people who are already more responsible with their own money will do wise things with it and plan for their future, their heirs and their retirement and their own passing. Those who are not as responsible will be forced to recognize (sooner or later) the need to be more responsible. Those who are greatly irresponsible - it won't matter anyway, since the current system or any future system will not convince them to be more responsible; these people are the parasites.

Let me have more of my own money, and only use the bare minimum to fulfill the requirement of government while shrinking government by 60%, and my family and I will raise our standard of living while investing in our country's future. Simple choice for me.
 
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