(09-07-2010 11:08 AM)RobertN Wrote: Since you righties don't like paying taxes [...]
The vast majority of "righties" are fine with paying taxes. It is the wasteful spending for non-essential programs and pet projects that drive the ire.
Boortz listed off several examples shown here. Even in "good times", these would be questionable at best, downright foolish at worst.
- $6.1 million in federal funding for a new visitors center at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
- $700,000 for a professor at Northwestern University to create computer software that tells jokes
- $89,000 on a sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, Oklahoma
- $554,763 for the National Forest Service to replace windows in a closed visitor center at Mount St. Helens
- $762,372 to create "Dance Draw" interactive dance software
- $1.9 million for international ant research
- $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policymakers
- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music
- $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity
- $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
- $456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune's atmosphere
Yes, it's on Boortz' blog, and no, I didn't follow the links of each one to investigate it all myself. But this type of spending is so commonplace that these sorts of lists are easily verifiable.