people want the government state, local, or otherwise to take care of the road maintenance, keep schools from falling apart, and to operate things like public transportation. but when the taxes people so that they can take care of these things, all of a sudden they're spending too much and taxing too much.
i have lived on kauai for two years now, and the roads are a lot like jamestown road with potholes deep enough to permanently screw up your car. people that live in hawaii pay more for car repairs related to shitty roads more than any other state. when the stimulus money came out to kauai the first thing they did was fix the road, and they haven't stopped fixing it (there's really only one road here). without taxes, they wouldn't have been able to fix it.
when i was in elementary school, our rooms were so crappy that a lot of us would get sick during winter time from all the mold. and i went to one of the better kept schools in tuolumne county. in all of my school years, i can only remember once getting new textbooks. taxes are supposed to take care of thing slike that, keeping school buildings up to code and getting new textbooks so we don't have a generation of idiots that think they know everything. unfortunately that failed for my hometown, and for many more.
i would rather get taxed a little more, and know that the government has money for education and roads, than to get less taxes out of my paycheck and wonder what's going to get cut next. the less taxes they take out of your paycheck, the more likely you are to have to pay taxes instead of getting a refund.
i currently live at the poverty level. i can barely pay rent and i'm on foodstamps, without which i would not be eating. because of this, sometimes i can't afford toothpaste, so i have to brush my teeth with water. without taxes, i couldn't be on food stamps. without that, i wouldn't be eating.
people don't realize that welfare, medicare, food stamps, all those things that people are having to use now because of the economy are government funded. WITHOUT TAXES, PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE GETTING THESE LIFE SAVING BENEFITS.
that being said, i don't agree with our tax dollars being spent on special elections that are for no real purpose (eyes "herr gröpenfuhrer"). i also think that spending tax payer money to fund anything that doesn't directly help the people is crap. and yes, i believe that obama has the best of intentions at hand, and isn't trying to overthrow the government from inside.
in the long run, i think we need to hold the senators, governors, and mayors more responsible for spending money. it's easy to jab at the president because he's so far away and at the top of the chain, but it's the people that have control over your taxes that are fucking up.
governors flying off to fuck a prostitute half-way around the world, senators more worried about making lobbyists happy and working on the next election campaign as opposed to fulfilling their duty, those are the people we should be yelling at, demanding answers.
