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September 12, 2009 at 19:54:31     Permalink Promoted to Headline (H2) on 9/12/09: It's Not Your Tax Dollars Any More Diary Entry by Margaret Bassett (about the author)

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You paid your taxes, didn't you? Then whose money is it now? Uncle Sam has it, and he sure needs it. If you think he's reckless with your hard earned cash, tell your Congresspersons. They appropriate. By the time it gets to the US Treasury it's out of your control.

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You paid your taxes, didn't you? Then whose money is it now? Uncle Sam has it, and he sure needs it. Ifyou think he's reckless with your hard earned cash, tell your Congresspersons. They appropriate. By the time it gets to the US Treasury it's out of your control.

Sometimes I get amazed how folks think what's in the Treasury is still their own. Some notable persons--Dick Armey seems to be there--are marching to protest how the government spends too much money. Well, I sympathize. I don't pay much to the federal government any more, just a state income tax and the inevitable deductions from my Social Security check each month.

Back when we were wage earners, my husband and I did a good amount of shoveling out. I figure the best I can do is not cost the US government any more than the "entitlements" Congress granted retirees. And I don't complain if some persons who probably paid much less than we did are "entitled" to more now. It's the way laws are written.

If the figures don't come out in a person's favor, I have a suggestion. March, of course. But learn also to figure out how appropriation committees function, how there are organizations dedicated to checking for fraud, how the breakdown between domestic and foreign policies run up the tab. And then of course tell us here at OEN. We can check out the problem in our individual districts. By the time the appropriation bill gets to the president's desk, most likely it's too late.

And now, the bigger concern! If there aren't enough jobs, there will not be enough paychecks to deduct from. And worse still--if people work for so little money that they don't owe US income taxes. That's a crying shame. It's a sadder story best tackled in another essay.

 

Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 87-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political conumbra. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel (more...)
 

 

 
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