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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question shouldn't be whether 39% if fair for the wealthy but why tax rates need to be as high as they are at all.  A small sampling of our tax dollars at works demonstrates the waste, fraud and abuse of tax payer dollars says it all.  Our legislators have run amok and we are footing the bill.

$1M on fruit fly sexual attractiveness study
$1.5M on designing video game controller
$100K to fund comedy group tour in India
$500K+ on dancing robot that connects to iPhone
$10K talking urinal cakes
$320K robotic squirrels
$1.4B improper food stamp purchases
$6B for research to find out what lessons about democracy and decision-making can be learned from fish
$350K research on how to improve your golf game.
$47.9B on fraudulent or improper Medicare payments
$25B annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
$123B annually of federal programs (22%) failing to show any positive impact on the population they serve
$100B per the CBO on wasteful including 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs
$2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job
$3.9M spent by the SEC rearranging desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters
$146M for upgrades for federal employees who refuse to fly coach
$800K in stimulus funds to study the impact of genital washing in South Africa
$3M for research on video games
$2.6M to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly
$500M to figure out why five-year-olds “can’t sit still” in a kindergarten classroom
 $1.8M on a museum of neon signs in Las Vegas

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The list is crap.  There are only a few meaningful items in here.  There is not $48 billion of annual medicare fraud.  That's about 10 years of fraud.  And what the hell is $123 billion of federal programs failing to show any positive impact on the populations I serve.  Is that the total of useless defense spending by chance?  Because maybe then you have a point.

No one spent $6 billion on learning democracy from fish.

The excess annual cost of maintaining federal properties is $190M, not $25B.    They erroneously counted the asset value, which if we sold would be a one time revenue benefit, not annual.

That much took five minutes of research.

This list is obviously total shit but you will happily peddle it over and over, I'm sure.[/quote]

These morons are always wrong but rarely in doubt.[/quote]

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