Your Government -- Cheap

We pay whatever the airlines charge, and additional fees to for-god's-sake let our luggage come too.  We put gas in the car and then feed the kids junk food because we can't afford healthy food.

I can't understand how people can afford cell-phones and internet service and cable/satellite t.v.  What started out as the least expensive deal the satellite company had to offer turned into $70 a month.  I can't afford it, but it's become a necessity, and I sure can't understand how people can afford more than the "basic" package.

Had a repair done on your house lately?  Been to the doctor?  Bought school supplies?

Yes, we pretty much pay whatever it costs except in one area.

We insist on cheap government.  Why?  Because we can.  We can vote anyone out of office who doesn't swear by their mother that they will lower your taxes.  And everybody else's taxes as well.

Doesn't matter if you own a chalet for the winter and beach front during the summer, if you pay taxes, you are paying too much.

You made a gazillion dollars in Wall Street bonuses?  You're the CEO of a company that just laid off hundreds of workers?  No worries, we all know it wouldn't be fair for you to pay more taxes than say, a teacher or a nurse.

Which doesn't make any sense at all.   Somewhere along the line, we have decided to value the plunderer more than the educator, the financial trickster more than the factory worker, the corporation more than the service.

And what we have left is cheap government:  bad schools, too many prisons, depressed parents and children, bad roads, bad bridges, research dictated by profit and "prophets", too big to fail that can't help but fail, little or no regulation, politicians run by corporations, bad news.

Time to talk taxes.  Time to pay for good government.  Good schools, good libraries, adequate police and fire departments, research and development, regulators that regulate corporations run amock.

All we need is politicians fearless enough to admit that you get what you pay for.  And to see to it that the wealthy are not valued more than the workers.