Quote: I can see one area that we could definately save on; taxes. We could definately reduce or get rid of the tax placed on gas. We could then cut back on some of our more useless government paid for programs (endowment for the arts, and the likes of it come to mind) Take the money we saved from not giving it to artists to paint religious figures in elephant $hit, and use that to pay for road improvements during this time of less tax from gas.
Oh come on.
With my gas usage I pay roughly $50/month in gasoline taxes.
6% of your income taxes go towards social programs (according to the 2004 budget). I pay roughly $1200/month in federal income taxes. But I'll get about half that back at the end of the year; meaning a gross tax of $600/month.
This means I pay roughly $40 a month in federal taxes to support social programs. All social programs.
If you eradicated every single social program in the entire nation, which would never happen because it would debhilitate the economy, you still couldn't cover the loss of not paying gasoline taxes.
And that doesn't even begin to address the fact that you're advocating cutting federal taxes to subsidize the loss of state taxes. Fiscally it just wouldn't work and would incur more losses in the bureaucratic process than what actually trickled down to where it was needed.
