Dr. Pepper, thank you for being respectful as well despite our differences in opinions regarding this topic.
We do indeed both agree regarding government waste. Where we disagree is whether individuals must pay taxes that cause them financial hardship and whether the government has a right to levy any tax amount on its citizens. Or if you agree with me on these two things, perhaps we differ only whether we believe citizens are “cheating” if they don’t pay heavy taxes that will cause them financial hardship. As we already discussed, I don’t agree not paying these taxes is cheating as I believe no government has a right to levy taxes on individuals to the point that it causes them harm, the governmenthas no right to that money.
I totally agree with you on Social Security. As almost all other programs, it is not run well. Because the government is too big and because there’s the printing money without gold backing and raising taxes with no restraint, money is not being spent responsibly and trillions is being wasted. The individuals running the US government don’t care much if the SS program crashes- the majority of elected officials are rich to begin with and most often get even richer in office so it doesn’t concern them personally. I am super-impressed with Trump and Elon Musk trying to make some order and i hope they will get to do that with Social Security program as well. I am wary though how it will all pan out long-term and what will be with future administrations.