Comments on: Oh Alabama, Don’t You Cry for Me http://www.taxgirl.com/oh-alabama-dont-you-cry-for-me/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:33:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Skip McQuaid http://www.taxgirl.com/oh-alabama-dont-you-cry-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-7694 Skip McQuaid Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:07:37 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=1940#comment-7694 An Alabama politician is crooked and somehow that is news? Check out our double dipping legislators or how about their families who got really good pay for non existent jobs - or the college presidents and other executives of those same colleges who also got paid for not doing anything. Or how a legislator got paid for work she did for a college while she just happened not to be there that day. And the folks in our legislature who make this all possible by allocating the money and establishing the jobs in the first place. I have always been on the side of states rights - but the only thing I fear more than the federal folks are our own state folks........and I'll be darned if we don't keep sending the same folks back to Montgomery again and again and again. Skip McQuaid An Alabama politician is crooked and somehow that is news? Check out our double dipping legislators or how about their families who got really good pay for non existent jobs – or the college presidents and other executives of those same colleges who also got paid for not doing anything. Or how a legislator got paid for work she did for a college while she just happened not to be there that day. And the folks in our legislature who make this all possible by allocating the money and establishing the jobs in the first place. I have always been on the side of states rights – but the only thing I fear more than the federal folks are our own state folks……..and I’ll be darned if we don’t keep sending the same folks back to Montgomery again and again and again.

Skip McQuaid

]]> By: chris http://www.taxgirl.com/oh-alabama-dont-you-cry-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-7688 chris Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:35:19 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=1940#comment-7688 We have to look at the fundamental problem that is effecting many politicians and has the potential to effect all politicians. It is the never ending growth of government. How can we, as citizens, expect the single richest entity in human history to be controlled by mere laws and citizen outrage? People complain about companies like Exxon/Mobil and the tens of billions in profits they make and we think that this is a corrupting influence on them. We look with skepticism at how they achieved this and many are concerned at the power and control that all this money affords them as well as the consequences on the consumer. Maybe we should apply the same scrutiny to the government. Since the total take in taxes and fees by the Fed and state governments tops 4 trillion dollars a year, we might need to consider that we will never be able to keep the government in check. Comparing the amount of tax money to the government to the profits of companies like Exxon cannot even be made. Exxon profits are a pittance compared to the government and they are the most profitable company in the US. It is like comparing Bill Gates to a homeless person. Corruption will continue to increase as the big money keeps pouring in. All this government that so many ignorant people want is going to be the death of this country as we know it. We continue to ignore world history thinking that the US is too big, too great, and too powerful to fall apart and yet we can see the very same thing has happened over and over throughout history to many and all great cultures that choose this road. The road of big government leads to big power and then to big corruption. The size of our government is the reason for the massive corruption we have and it will continue to get worse as long as we give politicians control over the largest sums of money to ever be controlled by any governing body. Barring massive cuts to government taxing and spending, we will never get this corruption under control. We have to look at the fundamental problem that is effecting many politicians and has the potential to effect all politicians. It is the never ending growth of government. How can we, as citizens, expect the single richest entity in human history to be controlled by mere laws and citizen outrage? People complain about companies like Exxon/Mobil and the tens of billions in profits they make and we think that this is a corrupting influence on them. We look with skepticism at how they achieved this and many are concerned at the power and control that all this money affords them as well as the consequences on the consumer.
Maybe we should apply the same scrutiny to the government. Since the total take in taxes and fees by the Fed and state governments tops 4 trillion dollars a year, we might need to consider that we will never be able to keep the government in check. Comparing the amount of tax money to the government to the profits of companies like Exxon cannot even be made. Exxon profits are a pittance compared to the government and they are the most profitable company in the US. It is like comparing Bill Gates to a homeless person.
Corruption will continue to increase as the big money keeps pouring in. All this government that so many ignorant people want is going to be the death of this country as we know it. We continue to ignore world history thinking that the US is too big, too great, and too powerful to fall apart and yet we can see the very same thing has happened over and over throughout history to many and all great cultures that choose this road. The road of big government leads to big power and then to big corruption. The size of our government is the reason for the massive corruption we have and it will continue to get worse as long as we give politicians control over the largest sums of money to ever be controlled by any governing body. Barring massive cuts to government taxing and spending, we will never get this corruption under control.

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