Not too clear on your meaning, but it seems that you resent any taxes at all.
I sure don't think much of them either, particularly regressive ones like sales taxes; and where a lot of them go to (waste & corruption, pointless sandholes, etc.).
But a country practically without them, like Somalia, etc., just doesn't appeal to me as a homeplace.
Wait til the 'spend and borrow' crowd now driving the clowncar get done screwing around. Somebody gonna pay for all those top bracket tax cuts, and unrestrained spending and corruption, and it won't be the top 10%'ers.
Oh yeah, wait until some serious inflation and some engineered market crashes happen (sooner than you think), along with $4-5/gal gas, diesel and other fuels, heheh. Groceries? More catfood is what's for dindin (very not funny, I've seen people, seniors, making some serious diet choices in this rural, relatively/statistically poor area). Of course the "bad choices" crowd would just sneer at some poor former working stiff.
Not too clear about anything you're trying to say either. Talk about revisionist history. We already had $4-5/gal gas and King Barry had nothing to do with the prices coming down, but he had everything with the price going up. Inflation is already absurd but you're not talking about that. I wonder why? Sounds like you're simply regurgitating msnbcabcpbscnncbs talking points, none of which is any kind of argument for anything other than a refutation of your argument.
Here you go. Gas $4-5/gal.
Point 1 (bolded): I don't know if you were a pre-teen then or what,
but gas first went above $4 after Bush/Cheney boogered Iraq. It stayed there for most of the rest of their term.
I observed lots of people here (rural, exurban, 2001 to ~2005) buying F-2/350's (white, like Bush's at the Crawford pig ranch), Hummers, etc.,
just to commute to their cubicles in the big city. Then the SHTF ($4/gal et al.) and Craigslist was chock full of them selling off (trying to) those monsters
because they couldn't hardly afford to feed the beasts anymore. I laughed my azz off, then picked up a great, almost new, very slightly used one of those behemoths for a
huuuge discount over a new one (I suspect the seller owed more than I paid). The behemoth market had become glutted and the owners couldn't hardly give them away. They paid a crushing depreciation cost to follow that fad.
Under President Obama, those high gas prices did come down significantly, eventually (not that he gets 'that' much credit for that). Other than saving a rapidly sinking economy and helping bring the most sustained economic improvement yet (78 months ++, IIRC), major national y/y Deficit reduction (not Nat'l Debt, a gigantic increase there was baked in by Bush).
The Dow was at around 7000 (actually had been ~6700 after the final Bush crash/meltdown) when Obama was inaugurated in 2009.
As of last Friday it was ~19900, far more than doubled, almost tripled. Record profits, ~14mil new jobs, relative peace, OBL daid as a hammer, etc. Of course, the Prevaricator-In-Chief will now take credit for all that.
Just a few days ago I filled up for $1.92/gal reg. I don't know where you get >$4/gal bull. It's been (guessing) an average of ~2.80-3.30/gal during O's terms. The Eagle Ford (where I am-- boom times), Bakken, etc., have helped bring O&G way down the last 3-5 years.
Point 2: I mostly agree with your take on inflation. It has sneakily increased in many things, as a retiree I certainly notice it; much of my income is fairly fixed and un-COLA'ed for the most part (but I've raised my rents >50%, it's been a sustained boomtime here). But it was even worse during BushII, I got the receipts.
Oh, BTW, "msnbcabcpbscnncbs", never watch those 'news' progs. Never paid for cable/sat, never will, strictly OTA and internet (PBS, BBC, RTE, DW, etc).
