There is also the gov waste factor...which is why I disagree with liberal more governement stance. Fore example this article: http://www.askheritage.org/how-much-money-is-the-government-wasting/ ....now keep in mind that is just improper payments and vacant lots.
So lets carry this on. When I worked for the governement 10 years ago. I did absolutely nothing but watch movies all day. I made 6 grand a month salary and got 30 days a year vacation time. So I alone wasted 72,000 a year of US tax dollars for 9 years of my life. Now I'm just one in a sea of people doing the same thing, milking the checks waiting for to sign my leave form to take a nice vacation, so when we vote for more government, we vote for more people doing the same thing I did bc its a pretty cushy system.
Now let's take waste even further, end of fiscal year surplus funds and the use or lose policy. So we ordered everything under the sun. Depending on what pot of money the funds were, we ordered art and paintings for the office under the aesthetics and moral fund. For personal funds we all got oh about 400 dollar backpacks and lethermans and the most expensive flashlights (you know, all these things we needed for work). and this is just the beginning. Now, that's just an office of 7 people.
See how all of this is adding up? And thats just me and office of 7 people.
Isn't that true! I worked for government for 8 years and it was the most soul sucking 8 years of my life. I was surrounded by mean lazy people.
The money was wasted on the most useless things. I worked in IT and my boss asked me to price out a $20,000 server and of course a backup for it. This was for a production server that was barely used. It could have been hosted on spare capacity we had on other servers. But homeland security paid for it so if we didn't waste the money they would cut our budget the following year. This is one example of horrible waste.
I left that hellhole and now work for myself. I don't get a pension plan and any freebies like I did as a government worker, but I sleep much better at night knowing I am a productive part of the economy again.
Interesting, that makes sense.
The gov. waste is a very loose system and its heavily abused bc its not monitored and not one office wants to lose that funding so they just waste it on crap. Its a massive problem and every government employee knows this and continues to abuse it.