… to talk about the Government’s income and expenses like those of your family’s budget and expenses.
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p>You go to work to earn revenue as utility toward your goals and aspirations for you and your family. We tax to give our collective household income with which to accomplish our collective goals and aspirations… as well as our collective responsibilities.
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p>How much of that do you want to put on a credit card? Do you really want to elect to go into an optional war on the credit card?
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p>How do we get our financial house in order? Certainly tightening our belts and doing a better job of distinguishing between needs and wants is a start, but maybe bolstering our Government’s income is also the answer.
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How do we get our financial house in order? Certainly tightening our belts and doing a better job of distinguishing between needs and wants is a start, but maybe bolstering our Government’s income is also the answer.
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p>Our State’s income seems to be bolstering quite well on its current path.
If there’s a deficit, and income’s been rising, then of course expenditures have been rising. Who can argument whatsoever that our government isn’t great at spending.
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p>But to advocate for higher taxes without first advocating for budget constraint is like giving your kid money he asks for, without asking why he needs it.
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p>Of note, state employee headcount is up again this year, yet population is flat and declining. Counterintuitive, really.
… I just worry because the Norquists of the world would have tax increases never even be a topic of polite conversation. The tax pledge thing is lunacy. “I pledge never to increase taxes… no matter how much it makes fiscal sense.”
Taxes are not evil. Inadequate or uncollectable taxes and unstable revenue streams are what hurt the vulnerable and the infrastructure both.
… to talk about the Government’s income and expenses like those of your family’s budget and expenses.
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p>You go to work to earn revenue as utility toward your goals and aspirations for you and your family. We tax to give our collective household income with which to accomplish our collective goals and aspirations… as well as our collective responsibilities.
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p>How much of that do you want to put on a credit card? Do you really want to elect to go into an optional war on the credit card?
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p>How do we get our financial house in order? Certainly tightening our belts and doing a better job of distinguishing between needs and wants is a start, but maybe bolstering our Government’s income is also the answer.
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p>Our State’s income seems to be bolstering quite well on its current path.
As the previous graphfrom the Governor’s very accessable budget document tells us.
If there’s a deficit, and income’s been rising, then of course expenditures have been rising. Who can argument whatsoever that our government isn’t great at spending.
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p>But to advocate for higher taxes without first advocating for budget constraint is like giving your kid money he asks for, without asking why he needs it.
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p>Of note, state employee headcount is up again this year, yet population is flat and declining. Counterintuitive, really.
… I just worry because the Norquists of the world would have tax increases never even be a topic of polite conversation. The tax pledge thing is lunacy. “I pledge never to increase taxes… no matter how much it makes fiscal sense.”