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Old 05-03-2013, 01:51 PM   #796 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by radioranger View Post
...not a lot of logic here when our brilliant govt wastes so much, then tells us to be efficient, so they can have more...
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.