When people start groaning under high taxes, there’s always someone like Chris Bergin at Tax.com to cheer us up with something like this:
As a society, we will never be free of taxes
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I’m sure those trips were absolutely necessary to keep Iowa on the cutting edge of innovations in education. It’s funny how ‘necessary’ something becomes when you spend someone else’s money on it.
I agree with paying taxes to keep public funded options like schooling open, but paying taxes for someone to travel to bora bora is out of the question. pretty sure no one’s going to be washing their clothes in a river if we don’t allow them to travel to hawaii and bora bora on our dime. if anything, them not using peoples money to vacation would mean less expence overall and lower taxes. Give me one reason other than “Because” that those people need to have these conferences in exotic areas.