| thranx said: not sure how it works in austraila, but i do not think your tax figure shows any kind of local tax, citi tax, county tax, or state sales tax. Only the federal spending. Which the feds do not make up the whole picture as states also want their "fair" share of your money too. So maybe re run your numbers with those included. America has a spending problem. |
Since the topic of discussion is the federal government and its budget deficit problem, state and local taxes are entirely irrelevant. Also, I did mention state sales tax, when discussing the comparison between that and Australia's GST (which is a federal sales tax).
In theory, one could also analyse each state, or each local government, for its budget revenue and spending, etc. And I'm sure there would be some interesting results - it's entirely possible that some states of America have spending problems. But America's federal government - that is, the one based in Washington DC with Boehner as house leader, Reid as senate leader, and Obama as executive leader - doesn't have a spending problem (or rather, it doesn't have a problem with amount of spending, only quality of spending).
Try actually reading what I said in my previous post, before replying again.
