The financial issues that our Congress must deal with are tremendous. They cover countless subjects. They involve trillions of dollars of necessary spending – and obviously much that is unnecessary. Some is even harmful. And it all requires lots of taxes.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a system of really fair and equal taxing for everyone, to provide only the money that is really needed for sound policies – and if we could pay for that system economically?
That was the way our country was set up – with separate national, state, county and city responsibilities – and then strictly personal ones.
Of course, government doesn’t work perfectly that way. We tax and spend for the things that are essential. And then we tax and spend for a lot of things that are not. There are lots of “good” things that just aren’t appropriate government business.
Many of them are financed when some members of Congress are able to insert in varied bills financial appropriations for special “pet” projects. Some of them obviously are desirable. But when they all are added together, they cost a lot of money. That’s why our federal government taxes us heavily and yet runs more than a trillion dollars in the red, adding debt and interest costs.