Just out of curiosity, where would you like your federal tax dollars to go? And where would you like them to go the most?
Agricultural Development
Corporate Subsidies
Energy Development & Explotation
Foreign Aid: To Select Allies (i.e. Israel, South Korea, etc.)
Foreign Aid: To Other Countries
Infrastructure & Transportation
Medical Research
Military: Defense of the Nation & Allies
Military: Expeditions Abroad (i.e. Iraq War)
NASA & Space Exploration
Welfare: For those who truly need it.
Welfare: For everyone (i.e. Social Security, socialized medicine, etc.)
Other / No Taxes Whatsoever / Don't Care
What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
Just out of curiosity, where would you like your federal tax dollars to go? And where would you like them to go the most?
Last edited by Nakura; October 28, 2014 at 01:54 AM.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
I'm not an american so i did not answer the poll.
But for what i know, i'd say that investment really needs to me made regarding infrastructure.
Civitate
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Its a misleading poll. Essentially you are creating a false choice because you are forcing people to answer only one answer of the poll when in reality several things on the poll (or even all of them) could be equally important to a person.
Its also not entirely clear what you are asking.
You could be asking where should the most absolute amount of tax dollars be spent?
Or you could be asking what is the most important function to spend tax dollars on?
The answers could be very different. For instance, someone might be believe the most important thing to spend tax dollars on is welfare for the needy but the most tax dollars in an absolute amount should be spent on military.
Last edited by chilon; October 28, 2014 at 04:36 AM.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
You can vote for multiple options?Originally Posted by chilon
I purposely left the poll nation-neutral so that anyone can vote in it
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
No paying down debt option?
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Screw this planet. It's too late. Funding Terraforming on other planets is the only viable option.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
I take it this thread is mostly designed for USA? The end of this country will be more due to the crumbling infrastructure than any other reason.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
I imagine that this would be a given. Though I didn't include the option, because I wanted this to be more of a philosophical question.
Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
Education, but that's not one of the options, unless it's supposed to be included with Infrastructure.
I don't necessarily mean teachers' salaries, though I think some of them are underpaid given what they need to do and how schools can often be targeted for shootings these days, but updated material and training, and reliable but not necessarily the most fancy updated tech.
Personally it's really not so much what they should be spent on, but whether they are being spent wisely. I'd like education to get more funding, but not if it's done in very ineffective methods like hiring unreliable contractors or teachers get iPads for their classrooms.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
What, no education?
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Lend more or we'll default on all debt and destroy you.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
You assume it to be a given but it certainly isn't a given in politics in the present day, furthermore it is philosophically politically relevant to run a balanced budget.
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Lol , certainly.
All those Europeans and myriad others who are satisfied with the idea of American waitresses and janitors leading vain lives of quiet desperation to save the world .
Sounds good to me.
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
Pay it down to what point?
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Re: What do you want your federal tax dollars to be spent on the most?
How about at the very least, the very least, no structural deficit when not in recession and a pleasant goal and certainly a safe one would be no more than 50% of GDP. The level of sustainable debt can reasonably determined by looking at its surplus and its current policies. The USA is bad on both counts, current policies show no sign of slowing spending growth and unfunded liabilities rise year on year and it has no surplus and it has 100%+ debt to GDP.
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subsiding illegal immigration option
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