Yet Another Reason Not To Raise Taxes
My fiance was nice enough to send me this link to a story in the New York Times. While the total amount spent here is not even a speck of dust compared to the size of the federal budget, it is an illustrative example of how inefficient our federal government is at spending money. As the article states, auditors will never be able to really determine how much waste there was, because there is no accountability, almost no paper trail, and no one who really cares.
Every federal program is like this. Huge amounts of waste and inefficiency because no one cares. They don’t care because it’s not their money. If they need more, the government just creates it, either through raising taxes or issuing bonds.
I’m having an ongoing discussion over at at my political blog, Politics From Home. The desire to spend first, and ask questions later is deeply ingrained in the left, while the right talks the talk, but is too afraid to actually walk the walk.
Sigh. We need libertarians in government more than ever.
