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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Govt. efficiency? Remove the bloat and non-stop over runs on federal projects?
Utilize resources we have to fund projects?
Tax people and corporations who should be taxed and get your revenue that way?
Stop giving handouts to failed states and welfare cases, stop propping up peoples lives to the point where they have no incentive to progress?
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I think all of these pipe dreams that are never going to happen, no matter who is in gov't.
Governments will always be bloated. It's impossible at this stage to dismantle a bureacracy without putting too many unionized people out of work.
Over-runs are agnostic across all parties. There is no such party who can say they will prevent cost overruns.
Social services is a neccessity. There are people who simply can't work by choice and taking away their income subsidies will do nothing except make them homeless. At the same time, taking away a junky's welfare cheque isn't going to make that person go "hmm I guess i better get a job now lolz".
Corporations already are taxed, but they use enough tax shelters and loopholes to avoid paying it. That is a problem in every country. But if you tighten those loopholes, watch those corporations (and all the jobs they bring) leave the country.
I admittedly didn't like how they raised capital gains tax, I think we need to incentivize corporations and businesses to invest here, and that didn't help.
(And if anyone believed the gov't when they said this only affects a small amount of the richest people in the country and that they aren't rich enough to worry about capital gains tax, wait until you inherit your parent's estate and you realize you're paying capital gains taxes suddenly....)