porkyandthemob

Taxes – almost always we (the general public) make an association with this word.  Be it anger, distraught, fluster, panic stricken, rip-off, trouble, thieve, robbery, pilfer, pinch or “those dirty, rotten, greedy, pieces of…”  The point is we don’t always relate this word to the positive.  However in a moment of fleeting, indescribable, massive intellectual capacity I looked at the bigger picture.  I saw that the United States, the nation in which I call home, had actually done so many great things with these taxes.  I saw the expansion of roads that were needed so desperately, I saw the funding of schools and hospitals, higher education assistance, a mass, public transit system along a busy corridor (one of my own I admit) and even medical and nutritional aid to foreign 3^rd world countries that need it in such a urgent way.  And I thought: that’s actually pretty cool.  Course then I today’s headlines in the newspaper and though about all the money that we’re going to print to supposedly get us out of this crappy economic downturn and pay for everyone’s healthcare.  Now, can someone review the topic of “debt” for me and what happens with taxes?  I think it has something to do with this…