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Originally Posted by radioranger
...not a lot of logic here when our brilliant govt wastes so much, then tells us to be efficient, so they can have more...
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The lack of logic is on your side. The point of efficiency is so that YOU can have more, not the government. I was talking to the neighbors' kid the other day. Drives a Dodge Ram pickup, which he says gets 12 mpg highway. So that means he's paying the government about 6 times as much in gas taxes as I am, even before figuring that he commutes to his low-wage job, while I telecommute.
Likewise with everything else: the neighbors' power bills are upwards of $100, mine hovers around $40, yet I don't pay any more in taxes because of it. I just have an extra $60 every month to spend on things I enjoy... Fact is, I can't think of a single case in which me being more efficient causes the government to have more money.