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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Too many countries including the major powers are on the global tax band wagon. Last I saw the opposition to the tax included Barbados, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Kenya, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent, Peru and the Grenadines. The only possible good I can possibility see in this is the slim chance those companies that fled offshore to avoid taxes here may return. But still, raising corporate taxes isn’t the answer either because the consumer is still going to get shafted paying them one way or another. What really needs to be reigned government spending.
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Well - it really needs to be less government in general. We have far too many government employees at all levels of government who, if they were ever necessary to begin with, are now nothing more than a symptom of largesse.
For example - the toll collectors were originally guessed to collect the tolls that were meant to pay for the road construction. Now, the roads have been paid for 10x over as the tolls now go to service there pensions, salaries, and benefits of the tool collectors - all with continuous cries for more funding for maintenance and upkeep.
Likewise - there are around 24,000 Congressional staffers. That's an average of 44 staff per senator/congressman. Most if not all of them shouldn't be employed. Perhaps if Congress had to write their own bills and read their own bills, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
Likewise, in many federal government jobs, the government employee is an incompetent figurehead while the work gets done by a contractor. Why pay for one employee when you can get two for 3x the price...
All of the waste of oxygen ex-govvies can go become longshoremen and truck drivers and help end our shortages...