Sadly there is a lot of money that goes to waste here too even in times of austerity.
You can not have services without taxes. What's next- gated communities? is that what the Royal family has? The USA has plenty of people who can afford to pay more taxes. WE THE PEOPLE.. , not me the people.
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'Sleepy London town' welcome to Kansas ...
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"Socialism fails when it runs out of other peoples money to spend." Margaret Thatcher.
"TANSTAAFL" Made popular by Robert Heinlein.
"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." Wimpy.
Tuesday has arrived.. Someone has to pay.
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Love the Wimpy quote
@Blank Ballot
Somehow Blank Ballot of South Texas overlooked the sentence in the article that explained that the Councils were forbidden to collect enough taxes because the Conservative government wouldn't let them. The taxpayers themselves weren't consulted.
More crucially, a resident of a state that ranks last in educational outcomes, last in health-insurance converage, last in women's medical services, last in treatment of addictions and near the bottom in every other important measurement of the average citizen's well-being is perhaps not the most reliable advisor on the necessity of taxes.
Texans love oil, rich people, football, executions, pregnant women & pollution. They hate Hillary Clinton (now deleted from Texas textbooks for her insignificance) and they hate taxes.
They take themselves seriously; nobody else does.
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@camorrista I humbly propose confining Texans to Texas.