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Originally Posted by helpplease
I have no problem with taxes. . And I especially have no problem with the rich paying their far share of taxes. .
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I don't mind paying taxes as a part of shared social responsibility.
But some of my tax dollars subsidize a metropolitan school system (Detroit) that is so incompetent and corrupt that it is $ 440,000,000.00 in the HOLE!
It cannot explain where it spent/lost/misplaced $ 14,000,000.00 and it can't explain what bills totaling $ 33,000,000.00.
In the meantime, only 26% of public school students graduate.
The entire Public School admin council is, PER INDIVIDUAL, paid over $150,000.00 each, for nine months' work. They also each get a chauffered car or a city-paid driver and car.
The superintendent, who is paid 300,000.00 per year, was fired, and gets
$ 750,000.00 in severance, which people are now trying to revoke via civil suit.
The state finally stepped in but has not been able to find enough information to unscramble this very large plate of eggs.
This is not greedy white people, either.
The administrators, superintendent, and 96% of the local population is black. No race has a monopoly on greed, cronyism, corruption and incompetence.
The point: Taxes paid without accountability is what frustrates me. 
Most people seem apathetic and just do what the Russian serfs did: avoid them. Bury the coins in jars in the garden. (actually they use plastic bags that have been connected to the dehydrator to take the air out and keep the freshness in!)
I knew there would be a use for all those gizmos advertised on late-night TV...
Unemployment in Detroit proper is 29%
in Metro Detroit 22%
In Michigan as a whole: 14%