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So, is $50B in waste not worth eliminating? What is your threshold for wasteful spending by a govt? My threshold is zero. None, nada...

Funny enough, I bought a yacht this year. Here's something for you to chew on. I paid more in taxes this year(incl state sales tax) than...

I think that you are completely out of touch with economic reality. Most high income earners aren't buying yachts. They are investing...

Let's start with all that on a temporary basis and see just how long we can go without, then selectively add back juuuuuust barely...

The IRS would be easy to massively curtail. Simplify the tax code. Do away with ALL of the various targeted exemptions and deductions...

I get that you have a different ax to grind. Stay on the course, and open your own thread about 'those in need'. I can define $10B right...

Absolutely. All depends on perspective. From the perspective of the poorest 1%, going to bed hungry and having kids that are diminished...

To your graph, it costs money to have nice things. The PVC chairs and ice chest that I used for my family room chairs and coffee table...

Patently false, as shown by the chart I posted just above. I'll speak up and state that I am in the top 1%, and I pay that 40.8%...

Incorrect. There is nothing that requires me to propose that poor people pay more to somehow make rich people paying more seem...

History reminded me that we had a war to support, and then fight. Many of those labor positions converted within 12 months to soldiers...

OK, fair enough. So, anything that's been cut in any of our lifetimes?

Every time we have a “government shutdown,” they actually only shut down those services deemed “non-essential.” So why are we going...

A nation cannot tax itself to prosperity. We don't have a taxation problem in the US, and even if we did, the tinkering with tax rates...

...and here is the share of taxes paid by the top 1% and bottom half over time: Your argument does not hold water. In fact, the top...