I am well aware that there is probably no information I could give you that would change your worldview, or that of many others. Nevertheless, the information exists. People can look at the facts and draw their own conclusions.

Lord knows some states would love to have this be 90 percent. To get loads of freshly-printed Federal bucks to keep them from having to actually have any kind of fiscal responsibility (they can’t print money). Doesn’t make it a good idea.

As for your second question, it involves the difference between taxed wealth and created wealth. Think about it.

First question: why can’t everyone work for the government and get paid with money from taxes?

Second question: at what level of government employment and/or dependency does the system break down?

Another meme I would like to see die is using the term “investment” to refer to spending on things that consistently never return more than that what was spent on them.

Federal “investment” is money targeted to political allies in return for political power. And almost all of it burns more wealth than it creates.

Oh yeah, and how come when you’re protecting the rich man’s tax money, it flows everywhere boosting the economy but when it comes to Federal monies, the buck stops there? That’s not logical.

Besides, that money we would otherwise be squandering on the poor, the sick, our youth and the aged and on investment for rebuilding our infrastructure and our economy is rusting in the desert instead, or bleeding into the sand, not being recirculated into our economy. It’s not just the dead and the injured, the interrupted lives and the destruction. And it’s not just the money. War is a terrible waste at every level. Please try to retain that information.

I notice nobody wails about “lost government jobs” when we talk about military cuts.