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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (144114)	7/10/2014 7:26:11 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

We should. The proper role of government is exactly that in the economy. It's to level the playing field. To use the example you brought up about roads, we have a real problem there. The answer isn't these giant stimulus packages to rebuild everything. Rather, the answer is to charge everyone who has a car, truck, or other transportation vehicle a tax based on every mile driven. Local cities and states should collect those revenues and the tax should increase with inflation, since our government routinely destroys the value of the dollar. In this way, tax revenues are collected most from those that drive the most. You can even scale it to the weight of the vehicle, since we know that long haul truckers do the most damage to roads and motorcycles the least. Instead of these common sense approach, we have taxed gasoline to pay for roads, but the taxes have not increased with inflation and the tax revenues are used for all sorts of things instead of to pay for roads. My bottom line is that taxes should most often be for targeted purposes, and very rarely for general purpose funds. Another example is social security. Our idiot government mixed those collections from SS into their general pool of funds through a nifty trick of taking the money and replacing it with Special Issuance Treasuries, which is just an interest paying IOU. Nice trick. Our government has become one giant shell game playing, ponzi laden, bankrupt, spending machine that knows no bounds and they are rapidly destroying our economy as a result as their games get increasingly more dangerous with endless zero percent interest rates and money printing. Chinu, I fear the whole system is so broken, that few know how to fix it and fewer care enough to try. So it's become very Darwinistic. It's every man for himself now. The America of our Dreams does not exist anymore.