I feel that the government has gotten extremely involved in our day to day lives. But its involvement in the economy seems to be about right to me. Well maybe more involved that I would like. It seems like the government is more involved then they would like us to know. We are supposed to have a market economy but a lot of the parts of our economy are controlled by the government, if not directly then indirectly. Like they don't decide what can be bought and sold in our economy, well at least not with out reason. But they do control taxes on individuals and taxes on businesses and on purchases. So they control our economy in that way, they limit what it is an individual can do with their money. And that's not a terrible thing, but it also doesn't seem to be following our idea of how think the economy is being controlled.
The government should be smaller in my opinion. It shouldn't be reaching into so many different aspects of our life. We are supposed to be a democracy and have all sorts of freedoms and liberties. But in the least 20 years the government has been expanding into parts of Americans lives that the never used to be. Taxes, for example, have been a large part of that. And the reason taxes have become such a big problem is because the government has been expanding, and in order to expand they need money to pay for it. New government programs have been created over the last 10 years and all they have been successful at is spending money. The U.S. is facing a massive deficit and all the officials have been doing is try and baby people through it by creating programs that are supposed to help but end up costing more money than they are worth. Then on top of that there are new taxes that come into effect every year. Like this year we have a new tax on properties,we already pay property taxes but now if we buy or sell property you are taxed, and then your taxed on the income you get from that sell/purchase. This isn't the only example, taxes have been double dipping on ways to tax Americans.
Taxes have been messed up for a long time and all the government does is spend money trying to help people through the deficit and they end up hurting the other Americans with how taxes are set up now. I'm not saying its wrong for the government to want to help people who go through a natural disaster or lose a job, its okay to do it then, but all of the dumb programs like Obamacare that have been put in place and force Americans to spend money how they think we should then wheres the freedom in that? They are forcing families who maybe don't have enough money to put money that they would spend else where into heath care that they might not even end up needing. And they just keep adding programs on top that costs more money. If we want to get through this deficit we need to have massive budget cuts in the government and reforms that would get rid of pointless programs that exist and don't do any thing. We need to fix programs like FEMA, Social Security, and the way the budget is spent in our government. We need to find new ways to support the less fortunate with out taking away from the wealthy We need a flat rate income tax that way every one is paying the same amount of money in proportion to what they make.
