How do you feel about the way the government spends your hard-earned money?

Disgusted. They steal my money to give it to able-bodied people so they don't have to contribute to society.

We have plenty of money to take care of those who NEED it - the disabled, the working poor, the people who are in TEMPORARY crisis. However, why - for 18 years - must I support some idiot who gets herself knocked up?

Let's stop the hand-out programs so that we have enough money to help those who are actually trying. If you work, but don't earn enough to get by, we will SUPPLEMENT your income and help you get training so you can get a better job. However, the free ride must stop. It has created the inner city gang problems.

It is the major factor in how I vote. Stop taking my money to buy votes from others!

Charity should go back to being privately run so that the abusers can't live off the benefactors forever. In a private program, they are weeded out. When the government runs the show, there's no penalty for not trying to help yourself. In fact, you are rewarded for being more needy.

Stupid.

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The government has some excellent programs that serves people well. Without a doubt, I believe there should be more government involvement in a national health care program and job creation. This coming from a suburban New Yorker with the highest property taxes in the country, and the highest sales tax in the country. By property taxes, I know a few who pay $15,000 a year. That's Long Island, NY. Here in the NY Metro region there are 18 million people. We need prisons to handle the bad apples, we need medicare for the seniors, and we need playground and parks for kids. When I vote rarely do I consider taxes since I visit the park often and feel protected by our police department, where many police officers earn over $100,000 a year. Living in the poshest suburb in this country is way different than living in the middle of rural countryside.

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Considering that they paid for a transvestite beauty pageant because they called it an "AIDS awareness rally" to the tune of over $100,000.00 with my tax dollars, and thousands of other stupid pet projects, I am absolutely disgusted by how they spend our money.

to the first Mike...You are partially correct. The government does provide police, roads, etc...but they are not even good at that. Why is it that when a project is government ran (such as painting a government building) the wages go up for the painters to "prevailing wage"? It is because the companies screw the government and the government pays the extra without questions, but they must have wages and costs which add up. Several years ago, my brother was a painter working for another company. When he worked on government contract work, his wages went from $14.00/hr to $26.00/hr just because it was "prevailing wage". NO! The government does not do a good job at anything. They could not even run their own deli without having to turn it over to the private sector because they were running a deficit. GET A CLUE! Our government is the most wasteful "business" on the planet. If a private sector was run so poorly, it would not last a month.

Joe...I would love to see a link where anyone is being told not to show up for work. As for the wall, I agree, it is kind of a waste when we could just cut off 100% of entitlements of any kind and fine $50,000 for first offense of employing an illegal and $500,000 and 5 years for a second offense, then declare that any illegal caught in the US after one year from today would NEVER be allowed to come to America legally after that time we would see a great Exodus of illegals. They would self-deport. The savings from this act alone would make a dent in the deficit. Then if we revamped entitlement programs so they actually rewarded those who work, rather than punish them...as they do today...(thank you liberals for the idiotic formula), then we would wipe out unemployment, illegal immigration, and the deficit within 1 year. But the government does not have the balls.

I couldn't be more satisfied by the way they spend my money. I mean without the government I wouldn't be able to find employment to make the money for them to spend. Granted I have trouble making ends meet every month. But that is not their fault. I just need to work harder to make more. As for using this for considering on how I vote. No I wouldn't say that it has much or any bearing on that. Dem or Rep I don't care who wins an election. As long as they keep telling me how to live my life so I don't have to worry about it. That way I can work more, earn more to send to them to spend.

Thank you and have a nice day.

In some American towns and cities, the most basic services (such as school bus drivers and teachers) are being told not to show up for work because there's no money to pay them. Yet they are building a giant wall on the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants. This project is going to cost billions of dollars in the long run and what's more, it will not keep out the illegal immigrants. The "industry" of smuggling people into the country has some very clever resources. And they say a big wall is useless when one has a big enough ladder.

How do I feel? Answer: helpless.

No matter whether you vote for a Democrat or a Republican they will spend more money than they take in. Democrats will raise taxes; Republicans will increase deficit spending even more than Democrats and maybe cut taxes and borrow from China.

I'll vote Libertarian, which is the only way I can express my objection to what is happening.

You talk distinctive crap on liberals, yet then you truly ask them to no longer do an identical for you, do no longer dish out what you won't be able to take. initially, your taxes. The wealthiest are taxed 35% on the national fee, so the place this 36 got here from, i don't recognize, except you're mutually including your state tax. 2d, in case you truly are taxed '36%' then you truly're making over 380,000 funds a twelve months. maximum people who make this funds have discovered a thank you to stay away from being taxed. to illustrate, you make investments and then once you sell that inventory you may make it so it is not counted as own earnings by potential of the IRS, meaning which you would be able to easily pay a fifteen% tax. there's a clean regulation that even helps human beings to take some thing like a pay day own loan on their inventory and helps different investors to do an identical; this has a great decrease tax fee. that's the priority with the wealthy, even as their own earnings could be taxed at 35%, they could discover loopholes so as that they hardly could desire to pay a dime. those loop holes additionally are newly created by potential of the previous few administrations so it truly is in comparison to preventing them could bypass against custom. interior the forties and 50's the wealthy have been taxed nicely above 70% and that they used to pay for our wars. Now each and every thing only receives dumped on the middle class, who're people who supply all the wealthy their no longer hassle-free-earned funds. You do get to choose for a fashion your funds is spent. you reside in u . s . of america, so which you pay taxes to maintain the rustic working, you go with human beings to workplace who ensure how the funds would be spent and with despite you have left, you may spend on your liking. in case you do no longer like it, you may desire to have not have been given any concern shifting to a distinctive united states. Why do no longer we only drug try each and every person? undergo in suggestions drug tests fee funds too and do you go with greater to be spent on welfare? And drug tests does not weed out that many human beings because of fact they could stumble on a fashion around it.

When I see those who do not work eating better than my family who has both myself and my wife working full time, I absolutely do consider that when I vote.

It makes me want to put them in a time machine and send them to Williamsburg circa 1769. They could stand to listen to a few decent men speak about having no right to be a able to reach into another's pocket and take his money.

Eh. We all pay the man for living. Some things need to be reformed, sure, but they do a good job with 70-80% of it.

(EDIT: Yeah, things like roads, schools, hospitals, and police suck! You know, the stuff that most government spending goes too? Jesus, you people act as if America left the government $20 for pizza and they spent the whole thing on porn.)