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Originally Posted by August
They most certainly do not, but then again I never said that they did. However like the article says a President inherits a creation of all his predecessors. He chooses the direction he want's to point it during his term on watch. So far Obama has chosen to continue to grow the government. You can't deny it. How many new federal agencies are going to be created as a part of Obamacare? 150 or so?
I want him to shrink the Federal government not grow it. I don't want him to cut vital services like my states legislature does when they are trying to justify a tax increase. You know, like how they'll announce they had to fire a dozen cops or teachers, instead of the two fatcat directors who don't do anything but go to "planning meetings" in Aruba and Las Vegas. Oh no we need them to manage things. The three multimillion dollar feasibility studies we had W E Fleeceum and Associates do for us last year proved it. 
The problem is as I see it we pay our income taxes backwards. We should be paying the highest percentage of income taxes to our state, then maybe 5% of that to the Feds for common things like national security and interstate highways and national parks.
Instead the lions share of tax revenue from the whole country goes way off to Washington only to have a small portion of it, maybe, doled back to us with a ton of strings attached and the rest squandered away in various pork projects and other costly boondoggles. It's a very inefficient and gaffe prone method of managing our affairs.
Now of the two candidates only Romney has shown that he can fix financial messes which I think we can all agree is the number one job that we need the next administration, whoever it is, to do. I just don't see a reelected but now lame duck Obama administration getting that job done. |
I really like paying most my taxes to our state.
As much as we try to hide it, our country was based on states rights.
We are more of a constitutional confederacy, than a constitutional republic.
What is great for NJ, is not good for Mass, and vice versa.
Regardless of the outcome, I will respect the decisions made.
But what is our guarantee that we are not just trading names, for the same ol stuff?
But I will respect Romney, as I do Obama if he wins. I wish whoever wins the best, because we as citizens deserve the best.
I only hope the other side ( not so much you, August) can do the same if Obama wins, which I truly doubt.
You have to admit, there was alot of pre-emptive hostility towards Obama. (even before he did anything/and/or nothing)