Top 10 most destructive government actions

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Top 10 most destructive government actions - Short Stack

HIDDEN WELFARE COSTS. Welfare is not a category in the federal budget but the Congressional Research Service last catalogued it in 2003 as a $522 billion federally mandated state cost. Welfare is hidden in 86 different programs in six different cabinet agencies. Today, after inflation, it costs $700 billion a year, larger than Social Security or Medicare. It represents $65,000 for every poor family of four -- yet poverty increases each year, says the Census Bureau.

Seriously WTF? Thats more than I make in a year given as freebies. WTF am I working again?

7. FALSE TAX POLICIES. The personal tax exemption was $600 under Harry Truman. Today, after true inflation figures, it should be $8,400. But it is only $3,650. Thus a family of four loses some $20,000 in exemptions, and must pay an extra $5,000 taxes each year. Also the 1986 tax "reform" cut the tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent but took away deductions for interest and sales tax. The maximum tax rate has been raised back to 35 percent but the deductions were never reinstated.

9. ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX . When it was revealed that 155 millionaires did not pay any federal tax, Congress started a new policy, one which eventually taxed millions of innocent Americans who took legal deductions in high taxed areas. The cost to taxpayers will be a trillion dollars over a decade. The so-called mistake was not indexing the exemption for inflation, but the government knew the truth. When Congress finally voted to eliminate the unfair tax, President Clinton vetoed it. Meanwhile untaxed millionaires now run in the thousands.

 

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Top 10 most destructive government actions - Short Stack



Seriously WTF? Thats more than I make in a year given as freebies. WTF am I working again?

The recipients don't get $65K. Uncle Sam pays a bunch of people $65K+ to make sure of it. Over half goes to overhead. That there's what we call "job creation." :willy_nilly:

6. MISINTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION. Washington now grants immediate citizenship to the newborn of illegal immigrants, a so-called "birthright." But the 14th amendment, passed to grant citizenship to freed slaves, states the opposite for foreigners. We grant that right, which no other country does, despite the Constitutional requirement that the parents be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, which excludes all illegal immigrants.

They misinterpreted the misinterpretation.
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ..."
The Constitution doesn't mention the parents at all.

 

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Top 10 most destructive government actions:


No. 1) Allowing the dumb and uneducated to take part in the democratic system.

 

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I would never let them take away your right to vote. :jk

Besides, how would you test for such a thing? How would you keep it from being called racist?

 

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I would never let them take away your right to vote. :jk

Besides, how would you test for such a thing? How would you keep it from being called racist?

Have people take a pre-vote test.

 

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We tried that. Should we bring back Jim Crow as well?

 

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We tried that. Should we bring back Jim Crow as well?

it won't be based on race, religion or sex

 

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Neither was the old literacy test.

 

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Huh? Jim Crow was heavily racist in nature.

 

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Huh? Jim Crow was heavily racist in nature.

I said "Should we bring back Jim Crow as well?" The literacy test was only de facto elitist, much like your suggestion.

 

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Surely one of the top ten must be the manhattan project....

 

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I said "Should we bring back Jim Crow as well?" The literacy test was only de facto elitist, much like your suggestion.

Only intelligent people should have a say in the government, though.


Think of every moron you have ever met. You know the ones; the people that make you cringe at how dumb they are and how much they are lacking in almost every mental faculty. Why would you want these people having a say in anything?

 

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Who draws the line? Where would it be drawn? Who makes the tests? Who makes sure the tests don't eliminate a particular political bent?

The is America. Land of the FREE! Land of Equal Opportunity. You want elitism, move to France.

 

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Elitism in France? lol They're society has already collapsed because they are so liberal


What is wrong with elitism

 

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Elitism in France? lol They're society has already collapsed because they are so liberal


What is wrong with elitism

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I wouldn't call France especially liberal.

 

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They are, actually. Most of Europe is.

 

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And here we go down the "definition of Socialist" road yet again. *sigh*

Look, America is, or at least used to be, the antonym to elitism. Anybody can make it if they have the cajones. Keep your elitist crap in your own yard, please.

 

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And here we go down the "definition of Socialist" road yet again. *sigh*

Look, America is, or at least used to be, the antonym to elitism. Anybody can make it if they have the cajones. Keep your elitist crap in your own yard, please.

One of the biggest lies ever heaped upon people. Not everyone can make it. There are people that are too dumb, too lazy, too unwilling to make it in life.

 

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One of the biggest lies ever heaped upon people. Not everyone can make it. There are people that are too dumb, too lazy, too unwilling to make it in life.

Two oh-so-minor points:

• I said anybody, not everyone, and that "anybody" was with a caviate
• I concede the dumb, but I believe that too lazy and too unwilling would by definition exclude them from having the cajones to succeed.