Paying those Public School Taxes

[ClassiclyAmber]

[Lily]

[ClassiclyAmber]

[Lily]

[Ramona]

[Sandy]

[MrBill]

[Decrease]

[Theodore]

MrBill: You forget that there's a third option, don't take huge amounts of everyone's money through taxation. Less taxes means more take-home money, which means people spend more and work harder across the board, which means a significant expansion effect for the economy. If most social spending programs were reduced or removed entirely, then people could afford to donate to their local community in places where the money is 90% or better effective, rather than the lousy percentage the government manages (wastage, fraud, bureaucracy, etc.) For instance, I recently donated $500 to a local food bank. They say they can serve thousands of meals to the homeless for that $500, but good luck getting even a fraction of that effect from the government.

Yes, one of the things that the government should be spending money on is infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, etc., but food? Farmers are already heavily subsidized. The reason food prices are so high right now is the emphasis on corn use for ethanol, which by the way doesn't noticeably lower either fuel prices or "greenhouse gas" emissions. If you really want to lower food prices, I suggest lobbying for the removal of all subsidies on corn used for a non-food purpose. Ethanol isn't a good primary fuel, and sugarcane is pretty much the only thing you can produce ethanol from efficiently anyhow.

[momo3boys]