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What would happen if the people got a tax bill for the full amount of budget overruns
Seeing how we have used the national debt (and other funding sources) as a way to keep people happy and not have to pay the full share of taxes...What would happen if you got a bill for each thing the government paid for. Or maybe a breakdown of where your tax money went?
$1000 - Iraq war
$2333 - Bailout of banks and buying of properties from flippers and speculators that didn't want to take a loss.
$85 - Bailout of American car companies for producing the wrong cars and implementing something to improve fuel economy over 40mpg. Even simple batteries to power cars in traffic jams (under 10mph for an hour) and idling would have been good.
$$$ - Farm subsidies to large corporate farms
$$$ - Oil and gas exploration subsidies
$$$ - Highway construction projects that states should be doing.
$$$ - social security over-runs in a few years
$$$ - How much a nationalized healthcare system would cost everyone to give the same level of care as the private sector did in the previous year.
...I'm sure the list could be very long.
Would people be rioting in the streets? Or should we be allowed to pass the buck until sometime like 2000 when we had a budget surplus to start paying for these things (instead of giving some people some money back)?
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