Mudderoy
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Ecomike said:I think there are some serious problems with the numbers you posted above, and no links to your sources.
According to what you said, "roughly only 7.0% of the GDP was spent by the government" and "military budget was 626.1 billion in 2006 or 3.7% of the GDP" that means that 3.7/7.0 = 52.857% of the what the government spent was on the military budget. ????? But then you said earlier that "According to the G.S.A (the dept that handles most non military procurement) the government spends about 200 billion a year or aprox 3.0% of the GDP" and yet it spent "The military budget was 626.1 billion in 2006 or 3.7% of the GDP" according to your post.
I did some digging and found some links to some easy to follow data at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget,_2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
But getting back to my original point, I probably was not clear enough earlier, if you look deep and close enough at the results of everyone stopping paying their taxes (the original point of my comment), huge amounts of money would stop flowing to major businesses whose customers get their cash from the government, not just direct government contracts to large companies, but social security and medicare, medicaid. Retired, social security dependent people would have no SS cash flow to spend or would cut back due to the lack of monthly checks, and much of what they spend affects the bottom line of major corparations (medical industry which is over 10% of GDP now IIRC). Government employees would be laid off, so they would stop spending money, another big hit. Banks and countires like Japan and China would no longer value the dollar, and they (Japan and China) hold the 2 largest quantities of US debt right now, so the dollar value would plummet, and gaslone would quickly rise to say $100/gallon and keep going as the dollar became worthless, all becuase tax payers stopped paying taxes and stopped the government from servicing it's debt.
The entire US (and eventually world wide banking system) would collapse. You would be broke and out of work in no time with prices doubling weekly.
No US coproration in its right mind would allow that. Probably has something to do with why US employeers are required to withhold taxes and pay them to the government for you.
I would rather my taxes go to the military fighting a war(s) than some suck ass liberal who'd take it, increase the size of governement and entitlements to people who are able to work.
I may be stupid, and I may not know how to spend my money but I'll be damned if some liberal is going to tax me and spend it the way they and their college professor decide it should be spent.
If you want your money given to people then give it, don't take mine and do "the right thing" with it. Why do all you liberals feel so guilty that you have to take my money to fix things? Maybe you just need to start taking personal responcibility like marriage before sex, no sex unless you are willing to raise the child. Monogamous relationships, etc...
Oh and Christmas, damn it! :smsoap: :laugh3: