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    Issue #1: Questions on the economy

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    I hate taxes

     

    It just makes me sad when i think of what i could do for my family were it not for the hefty chunk of federal tax dollars stolen from my check every other week.  To make matters worse, elected officials gave my hard earned dollars to their old college buddies who in turn gave it to themselves in the form of bonuses. And what do they do with bonus money..buy nice gifts for their family, take them on vacations to exotic locations, buy nice cars, play on the stock market, that sort of thing.

     

    Does the billion dollar bonus CEO realize what i could do for my family if he were to give me back all my tax money? I might be able to afford a second car so my wife wouldn't be trapped at home all day with our son.  I might be able to show her how much i appreciate her with a diamond/sparkly thing, i might be able to give my boy something quality to open on the 25th, i might be able to just give some of that cash back to my parents for all the times in the past few years my old man has had to bail me out!

     

    And I'm sure the grief is 10 times worse for him as a small business owner who pays far to much in taxes to see some ass hole board member of a giant corporation who may or may not be responsible for this whole problem to begin with get a few million for letting it happen!

     

    -A little history lesson for those of you who may not know. A little over 200 years ago, a large number of concerned citizens were upset that a centralized government was taking more and more of their money while at the same time taking away more and more of their freedoms. A little thing called the American Revolution happened..maybe history needs to repeat itself.

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