Taxes (Let's Find a Way to Make Them SEXY!)

One thing these people who believe that taxes are the devil's oven mitts (relax MORF, I don't mean just you) need to stop braying like donkeys is "I can do a better job with my money than the government!!"

First of all, odds are you can't. Remember, we're a country of mostly idiots. How many people do you know have taken some money and actually done something productive or lasting with it? 1? 0? 0? 1-1? 0? Think about if tomorrow we handed every person in the country $100,000. How many of these people would even have a dollar at the end of a year? Right off the bat, I'm guessing 50% will just blow through it. About 35% would simply squirrel it away, maybe pay off a chunk of their mortgage. Let's divide the final 15% into people who try to DO something with the money to make more money and succeed, and people who try to DO something with the money to make more money and fail. So that's about 7.5% of the entire population that have actually "done a better job with their money than the government."

The fact is, when somebody says ""I can do a better job with my money than the government!!" what they mean is ""I can do a better job with my money FOR MYSELF than the government!!" Of COURSE if you handed me $800 I would spend half on hookers and booze, and the rest on just booze. I'm human. At what point do you think I'm gonna say "you know, I should set some aside for those potholes in my street"? I'm not. Which is why someone else (the government) has to.

You can argue for less taxes, or no taxes, or where the money even goes; but claiming that you could do a better job with the money than what the collective pot of the government can don't float with me.