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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 9:35 am
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seoulmanjr
 
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Originally Posted by magic111
Just who exactly would pay the government to keep these statistics in your scheme? Last time I looked at my 1040 a big chunk of my money went to the government paying for a big chunk of nothing that is a bit of importance to me or my family.

Surely a much better proposal would be for parliment to enact and 'fund' it. It would have 100% support from me. @:-)
Why don't we eliminate the bajillions of dollars in free money that we hand out to the domestic airline industry each year and use some of that? Then we could track this and there would be less taxpayer money getting blown away to support bad management at private firms.

As for taxes going to programs you don't use, I'm sure other people feel the same way about programs you use and they don't, but that whole part of the discussion belongs on OMNI, in my opinion.

peace,
~Ben~
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