Trimming Waste

Hi bestboy, I only suggest the governments should not raise the present tax rates or introduce new taxes. A ideal government should always first plan its expenditure with in its income. It should not make the people feel new budget means new taxes. There will be a lot of unwarranted,unnecessary expenditures in the budget,which the government can cut. In some countries,the tax evasion is more,which can be controlled by a clean government.The tax rates should be low so that people pay the taxes willingly,and not as a unavoidable burden to them.

I live in Ohio, and my city, and state have large budget problems. Today was a perfect example of why you don't want your city, or state to have budget problems. We had an ice storm come through the city last night, and early this morning, making all of the roads covered with ice. There were 50 injury accidents on I-75 in one hour, it was so bad in the city that the police ordered the city to salt the roads or they would have thousands of accidents, and possible fatalities. The city didn't send out the salt trucks because of the cost in man power, and salt on the city budget. My wife got into an accident miday on Tuesday because the state didn't salt I-75 and her Jeep hit black ice at 55 MPH. Thankfully she only hit snow banks, and is ok, but this has never happened in the past. This is a very dangerous aspect of budget cuts, and our current economic crisis. Hopefully your area is better off.

There is so much waste in this kind of thing we could probably zero the deficit if every phase of the government would do stop their wasteful spending. I have heard as a result of this bail out thing - all the corporate jets, spas, vacation weekends, over abundant expense reports and stuff like that that these huge companies do - they did it to them selves yet we have to bail them out of their luxury life styles. I say if they'd just stop "company cars" for ALL phases of government agencies - make them pay for their own transportation back and forth to work like the rest of us pay for, instead of it being paid by the company - there'd be a TON of money to put back into the economy or improve the company. Stop and think about it = a car payment, monthly insurance, gas, repairs and maintenance, license and registration every year and all that is paid by the company which is not only a tax deduction to the company but raises prices of their product for which us "main street" folk pay for so that the company can make this car allowance payment. Multiple that times the number of employees within the governemental agencies that have it and the cash waste total is staggering - and all over driving oneself to work every day.

If all the money we pay in to the different governments in taxes went where it was supposed to they would have money running out their ears. A very large part of what we pay in taxes is going under the table and right into people's pockets. This applies to all levels of government. I saw some figures on our local county government a few years back and a very large chunk of the taxes collected was being raked off the top right into people's pockets. They were not all part of the government either. It was proof positive of exactly what was going on but nothing was ever done about it.

The amount of waste at all levels of government is staggering --- though not at all surprising given the nature of government. They have little incentive to cut costs because they have a monopoly on the use of force. Why bother being efficient? They forcibly prevent you from getting the same services from anyone else.