“I think this was wrong-headed from the start....I need to see my government care about that, and shoulder the responsibility.”
I agree totally. But my beef is a little different:
We are already taxed to death - why should taxpayers fork out even more, just because the government is spending trillions of tax $$$ on all the wrong things?
We need to hold Congress accountable for how our already excessive tax remittances are being spent - not enable their gross misappropriations by volunteering yet more money to fund constitutionally mandated programs they fail to fund.
How is volunteering more money any different than advocating a tax increase?
Privitization is exactly what we need, but only in conjunction with commensurate tax rate cuts - if we privatize government functions AND overtax the private sector, the economy will sink like a rock.
Ronald Reagan said [paraphrasing]: “The federal government is like a teenager - if you want them to stop spending too much, take way their allowance”. He must be rolling over in his grave.
Yes, we are over taxed because of the government refusal to rein itself in. How do we change this? The answer STARTS with ending the massive amount of illegals coming into this country and using resources that belong to the citizens. In addition, elections need to be fixed ensuring that these illegals are not voting. The only way to do this is to disrupt the flow of illegals and a wall is what will help do this. So what if we have to fork over EXTRA money for now to get this done. In the long run, it will pay for itself in reduced cost to us for the illegals and it will increase the chance of clean elections that might help us elect folks who eventually WILL bring the spending under control.