1. Why do we loan money to people who can’t pay back the money?
2. Why don’t we have a comprehensive skills training program in space for kids who work with their hands and do not want to go to college?
3. Why do we forget the multiplier effect? If you build a tank, it is parked at the military base. If you build a car, people retract gas, accessories, repairs, insurance, resell and resell it, take out loans to finance it, wreck it, and get it repaired. A car has a bigger ripple accomplish on the economy than a tank.
4. Why do we keep hitting our head against the wall? The only good thing about hitting your head against the wall is when you conclude. Name one government program, besides World Wars, that has actually turned the economy around
5. How many lawyers, government clerks, and educational administrators do we need? An economy is effective when people get something.
6. Why do we pay for food products so many times? Glance at an ear of corn. You pay the government taxes to pay the farmer not to grow too much corn, or to turn the corn into ethanol, or to ensure that prices supports for corn are in place. You pay a subsidy to the Rural Electric Coops to be sure the farmer has electricity, you pay the gas taxes to haul the corn to market, you pay the sales tax on the corm when you buy it. You pay the economic impact of the farmer trying to comply with the desirable water act, the endangered species act and the clean air act. I am too lazy to do any major research, but it is astounding how many times through taxes and government regulation you pay for that ear of corn.
7. Why don’t I have money to spread around to my local merchants? If you have 100 dollars to exhaust and $50 of that is spent on income taxes, state taxes, sales tax, utility taxes, gas taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, property taxes, complying with government regulations, that is $50 that you cannot use to stimulate the economy. You can’t spend that money at a local restaurant, dry cleaner, home improvement store or a vacation. You put off dental visits, buying that new car, repairing that roof or building that new deck.
8. Does everyone over 65 need social security? Many higher income people do not need it. They have stocks, savings, and pensions. Sure it is unfair, but why pay a millionaire social security? Couldn’t that money be spending somewhere else?
9. Why don’t we realize how worthy government regulation costs? “The most comprehensive way to situation the regulatory burden in perspective is to note that every American household would be billed nearly $7,000 annually, in addition to the taxes we all pay, if all federal regulatory compliance costs were shared equally and still directly. ” (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v48/ai_18614101/)
10. How much have underage drinking laws cost the federal government and local communities? How much do they cost to enforce? How much is being spent to turn 18 year olds into criminals? How much have parents spent on lawyers definding a kid who had two beers.? Why are we the only nation with an age 21 drinking law? Couldn’t this money be put to better uses? Would the money wasted on enforcing such a law benefit to pay for something more effective – like helping the 47 million uninsured Americans?
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