Comments on: Our tax dollars at work http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2007/11/19/our-tax-dollars-at-work/ Politics of the People Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: bushtool http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2007/11/19/our-tax-dollars-at-work/#comment-42463 bushtool Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:16:47 +0000 http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2007/11/19/our-tax-dollars-at-work/#comment-42463 Just don't understand why, with all the important issues out there that deserve attention, our leaders think it's at all important to remind people to buy cars so that they (37% or less of them) can use Uncle Sam to help defray the cost of the vehicles. Meanwhile we (by we I mean our government) spend ourselves into oblivion with a seemingly endless occupation of a foreign country and fail to regulate, one iota, the mortgage lending industry causing a multitude of fiscal problems and uncertainty, just to name a couple of REAL problems our elected representatives just might want to address. These people remind me of Caligula "who fiddled while Rome burned". Just don’t understand why, with all the important issues out there that deserve attention, our leaders think it’s at all important to remind people to buy cars so that they (37% or less of them) can use Uncle Sam to help defray the cost of the vehicles.

Meanwhile we (by we I mean our government) spend ourselves into oblivion with a seemingly endless occupation of a foreign country and fail to regulate, one iota, the mortgage lending industry causing a multitude of fiscal problems and uncertainty, just to name a couple of REAL problems our elected representatives just might want to address.

These people remind me of Caligula “who fiddled while Rome burned”.

]]> By: Pat Campbell http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2007/11/19/our-tax-dollars-at-work/#comment-42460 Pat Campbell Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:21:08 +0000 http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2007/11/19/our-tax-dollars-at-work/#comment-42460 Part of the situation is that the standard deduction has been raised to the point it does not make sense for some of us to itemize. I know once I went from and emphasis on charitable giving to paying off debt, the standard deduction worked better. The prospect of saving a little may not be worth the effort. Part of the situation is that the standard deduction has been raised to the point it does not make sense for some of us to itemize.

I know once I went from and emphasis on charitable giving to paying off debt, the standard deduction worked better. The prospect of saving a little may not be worth the effort.

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