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Sredni -> RE: OT: BUDGET (12/31/2011 10:22:58 PM)
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I actually found it hard to cut much other then the military, or govt wages or number of govt workers. Every time I wanted to cut something I found myself thinking of the people who would be effected, or stuff like cutting farm subsidies. Cutting the farm subsidies would be like walking into a minefield. Not a political one (which it would be), but an economic one as all the farm subsidies are intertwined throughout the world in a careful dance of each country trying to keep it's farming sector competitive. If one group were to cut farm subsidies out of the blue without mutual cuts from competitors and such I would think bad things would happen.
What I found shocking though tbh is that you guys don't have a sales tax. It may be the most annoying tax in existence, but it's also the fairest.
Then there's stuff like carbon taxes. I wouldn't want a carbon tax going into general revenue, I would want it earmarked for research into green technology.
So to reach a balanced budget without cutting spending in area's that I would deem unacceptable would require tax increase, to everybody. Something your government seems terrified of doing. *shrug*
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