Originally Posted By: Alfred_B
Originally Posted By: CT8
Where ahs the money gone? The taxpayers in the U.S are mostly gullible fools.
We've been in perpetual wars since 1941 of different intensity. Look how many trillions we've wasted in the Middle East since 2001 with nothing to show for it.
That's where your money is going.
The entire operations fund supporting combat this year is 3% of the federal budget.
DOD itself costs 16% of the federal budget. I'm not justifying war, just looking at the simple math to see if tour statement makes any sense.
The preponderance of your taxpayer money is spent elsewhere...so...where has it gone?
About 50% of the Federal budget is payments to people.
Add in the costs of running huge Federal Agencies (like the IRS, which alone costs more every year than combat operations) and there isn't much left over to maintain infrastructure.
If I knew the money would actually fix the roads, instead of being funneled off to politicians' pets pork barrel projects, then I would gladly support an increase in both Federal, and State, gasoline taxes. Taxes that haven't been increased in decades, haven't kept up with inflation, and haven't been able to support building expanded infrastructure because they've been used for other purposes.
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