K8T Asks: If you could earmark where your taxes went, where would you specify?
Kate wants to hear from you! The next question of the week, straight from Kate, is: If you could earmark where your taxes went, where would you specify?
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April 8, 2008 @ 11:43 pm
75% for public education
20% for the arts (grants to individual artists, any medium, to be chosen by an expert panel of artists, not the Republicans in Congress or the Republicans at the NEA)
3% for electro-acoustic composers (my partner of seven years, who is an electro-acoustic composer, made me put this in)
2% to fill the pothole in the BQE outside my window
That adds up to 100%, right?
April 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
I wish the IRS would ask that question. I think I would have to have my taxes split among education reform; universal health care; LGBT rights and advocacy and elminating green house gases and lessening our dependance on oil.
April 9, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
I wish the IRS would ask that question. I think I would have to have my taxes split among education (including the elimination of “No Child Left Behind”); the arts; universal health care; LGBT rights and advocacy and elminating green house gases and lessening our dependance on oil.
(I hope this only posted once, I realized mid-post that I left something out)
April 9, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
I would like to see every penny of my tax dollars earmarked to keep John McCain out of office. Once we are successful, then I would like my taxes to education in the City of Detroit. Only 25% of the students graduated last year.
April 11, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
Are the opinions of sisters in the UK of interest/relevant to the site?
My knowledge of American politics is probably limited to UK news reports and reading a few interesting books but I’m facinated by the current political issues and would love to debate.
Annie Urwin
North of Manchester, UK
April 12, 2008 @ 12:37 am
I would fix global warming with the half of the entire federal budget that now goes to the military. I would put scrubbers on each and every coal fired power plant in the world which is what the experts say we need to do to fix the problem, everthing else I would do is just for fun and because I dont life GE. I would put solar panels and windmills and everyones home in the world, I would give everyone in the world ten thousand dollars to be neutered, though India finds just giving men a rifle is enough to bribe them. I would make adoption free and pay people to do it. I would end all violence in the world against women through education and make America the most educated people in the world. Free college, masters and doctors degrees all free. 1 teacher to 4 students just like the ultra rich give their kids. Free health care for all.
April 13, 2008 @ 3:16 am
0% to military
50% to environment and alternative energy research
25% to education
25% to health care