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The United States has lot the plot
The United States has totally lost the plot to the movie.
I’m a fan of America and want to see our country be great, do great things, and succeed. But we as a nation at this point must be the most foolish country on the planet and it has to be said.
We have got so much wrong it seems — taxes, food, culture, run down cities, inept leadership, and insanely corrupt politics. Everything seems to be broken in a country where almost none of these things should be broken.
Let’s take three of those examples for a moment — taxes, infrastructure, and politics.
Taxes and Infrastructure
We have more tax base, money, economy, and resources than any country on Earth, yet we are falling behind in nearly every aspect of life — and there is no need for it.
- We charge our own citizens an absolute fortune in taxes, and then spend it all over the world on totally useless things as it relates to what actual US citizens need. It’s especially insulting to the US taxpayers that are paying the bill.
- We send billions of dollars to the Ukraine to protect their border while leaving ours open.
- We just sent over $300 million of American taxpayers money to Haiti — For what? Where is it? Where did it go? What purpose did that serve for Americans? The top 50% of taxpayers paid 97.1% of all federal income taxes in 2018 — an similar in all subsequent years. Among those taxpayers, the average income tax rate was 14.6% and the average tax paid was $20,663. At that number, how many American taxpayers had to pitch in to make up a $300m payment? 14,518 taxpayers worked all year to have 100% of their taxes sent to Haiti.
- That same $20,663 figure equates to 9,679,136 taxpayers in the USA paid 100% of their taxes to the Ukraine. And counting. For what? Amost 10 million Americans went to work to have all their taxes sent to the Ukraine?
This is completely unfair to the taxpayers who earned that money and expect it to be managed well.
