Taxation is necessary and I have no problem with it to provide security, infrastructure, administration of programs, and even a social safety net of sorts to take care of our aged, infirmed, and young when necessary.
The problem is that the government is nowhere near efficient. There are government organizations that literally lose track of billions of dollars. They can't keep their records straight, fraught with fraud, and there is little reason for them to become efficient since the congress will just raise taxes to cover the inefficiencies.
There are no effective means to limit inefficiency in the government right now. At some point the government will need to be forced into efficiency. Rather than spending the next 50 years dumping countless trillions of dollars into a black hole, I believe we should follow some of Greenspan's suggestions for improving the budget deficits. These steps should include:
Making Bush's tax cuts permanent.
Creating a law that requires increased spending to be offset by cuts in other programs.
And doing something to limit the inevitable failure of Social Security as baby boomers retire.
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