I wonder how much of that was in fines, fees and necessaries from revenue from ObamaCare.
Raised taxes and Obamacare fines.
There is NEVER enough other people’s money.
File this news under “deprivation of property under color of law”.
Unfortunately for me and mine I am an above average payee to fedguv.
Work harder, slaves.
I think there will be a massive re-booting of civilization. Then the Bushes’ “new world order” will be run by “one world government”, THE UN. And there will be a very small percentage of the “haves” living on top.
Does anyone contemplate what the receipts would be if our work force were all working?
That’s how you pay down the debt and rebuild the military.
Not enough!! More! More! More! The “rich” will never pay their fair share until all wealth is in the hands of government, and everyone is poverty-stricken and enslaved to the government.
And ‘they’ want more.. And more.
Well, of course we’ll just borrow more!
The media says we have to:
“November Social Security Checks Could Hinge on Debt Deal”
http://blogs.rollcall.com/white-house/social-security-get-squeezed-first-debt-limit-breached/
Media seems extra determined this year to get the debt limit raised.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Based on the Supreme Courts clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes, here is a rough estimate for what taxpayers need to pay Congress annually in order to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Congresss Section 8-limited powers deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers as $1 trillion (but probably much less).
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, shouldnt be reporting multi-trillion annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Courts clarification of Congresss limited power to lay taxes in budget discussions.
The reason that we now have an unconstitutionally big, tax-hungry federal government on our backs is this imo. When the Founding States established the federal Senate, they gave control of the Senate uniquely to state lawmakers. Part of the reason for having state legislatures control the Senate was so that the Senate could kill House appropriations bills which could not be justified under Congresss Section 8-limited powers, such bills essentially stealing state revenues.
The problem is that the Progressive Movement spooked low-information citizens to pressure state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A). And state lawmakers caved in and ratified 17A, foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress.
So now, after voters elect their federal senators, they go home and watch football while corrupt senators rob voters wallets by working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills, bills which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
Also, if it wasnt for 17A, state lawmakers might have built up a 2/3 conservative majority in the Senate by now. This means that Congress could have possibly impeached and booted lawless Obama from the Oval Office by now.
So the first step to balancing the federal budget is to make 17A disappear imo, then to amend the Constitution with the suggestions in this post.
One wonders how many families were destroyed by tax-induced poverty.
Meanwhile, the government hogs belly up to the trough.