Those onerous taxes that you so easily sluff off equate to a lot of jobs that won't be created, Med. You know those downtrodden poor guys you keep harping about? What about them, Med? Would they be better off with a job or food stamps?
The last place our productivity should be going is to the federal government. To date, the federal government has produced nothing that the private sector couldn't/wouldn't produce better and more efficiently ... with the exception of military and police power, which squares with the Constitution, by the way.
A great example of recent government inefficiency is our sinking dollar and the mortgage "crisis." Oh, they will blame "capitalism" for the carnage just like they did in 1929, when in actuality, it, then, like now, was caused by the misdirected monetary policies of the Federal Reserve.
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