Yes, but what about the hidden cost of BS?
John Hood has apparently figured it out, he's on to the fact that Government spending involves, not simply people spending solely their own money on individual needs but collective pooling of community assets to provide community goods. With this newfound discovery, he bemoans those curve who "believe that if a politician promises them a "free" good, it won't cost them anything." He must be talking about tax cuts, isn't he? Those are "painless" right John. He bemoans the "interest free loan to the tax collector that paycheck withholding represents, because we all know if once every year the state and the Federal goverments had to go seeking the entirety of people's tax obligations, that would just go over real smoothly, like for instance, we could only fight our wars during the months of May and June, people depending on social security would get paid once a year.
This of course all goes to John's fabulous point that the real cost of government is hidden from people. Yes, John, the fact that pesky retail sales tax, which everytime someone purchases something increases the cost of their actual purchase price above the price tag they read when they picked it off the shelf conceals the cost of government. Would combining sales tax with a good swift kick in the rear delivered by a black-booted thug be sufficient, or will certain, umm, probes be necessary?
John also has a beef with poorer communities foisting their silly little needs, like water supply, sewer systems, roads, education on the "state government" and therefore imposing their spending needs on the more-fortunate denizens of Charlotte and Asheville and Wilmington. Regarding leandro funding concerns, John asks, "I've always wondered what this was supposed to mean in practice. Is there a category of North Carolina suburban counties whose residents can obviously afford to pay for their own schools as well as the schools of city and countryside?" Well, John, funny you should ask, how about those suburban counties surrounding, gee, I don't know, Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington which you so helfpully pointed out didn't have the same budgetary problems that other counties do. And since you no doubt have written columns commenting on how over-privileged, liberal and out-of-touch the well-heeled residents of Wake, Durham and Orange counties (how those high-falutin commies don't understand the struggles of salt-of-the-earth types both to the east and west) then let's go ahead and add those guys as well.
What the heck is the Old North State, a loose confederation of entreprenuerial enterprises beholden to no one other than their own parochial interest? Is the old saying "From Murphy to Manteo" being amended to "What happens in Murphy stays in Murphy, and Manteo can go to hell as far as Murphy is concerned"? Does John think that places like Charlotte, Asheville and Raleigh, beneficiaries of the presence of state-taxpayer-supported schools like UNCC, UNCA and State should hoard the results of this largess and ignore that the kids applying to those school also come from Hoke, Pamlico and Surry counties?
John sincerely, you want your wonderful world, fine, it's in Baghdad, let's buy you a ticket - so can live in a place where one region doesn't give a damn about the other. But if anything North Carolina needs to look after all its own better, not think of it as "other people's money" and start thinkin of it as our state's opportunity. Of course, if he wants it that way, then the state can stop spending my money on incarcerating non-violent criminals, executions and building senseless road projects. but that's not how a government works is it?
This of course all goes to John's fabulous point that the real cost of government is hidden from people. Yes, John, the fact that pesky retail sales tax, which everytime someone purchases something increases the cost of their actual purchase price above the price tag they read when they picked it off the shelf conceals the cost of government. Would combining sales tax with a good swift kick in the rear delivered by a black-booted thug be sufficient, or will certain, umm, probes be necessary?
John also has a beef with poorer communities foisting their silly little needs, like water supply, sewer systems, roads, education on the "state government" and therefore imposing their spending needs on the more-fortunate denizens of Charlotte and Asheville and Wilmington. Regarding leandro funding concerns, John asks, "I've always wondered what this was supposed to mean in practice. Is there a category of North Carolina suburban counties whose residents can obviously afford to pay for their own schools as well as the schools of city and countryside?" Well, John, funny you should ask, how about those suburban counties surrounding, gee, I don't know, Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington which you so helfpully pointed out didn't have the same budgetary problems that other counties do. And since you no doubt have written columns commenting on how over-privileged, liberal and out-of-touch the well-heeled residents of Wake, Durham and Orange counties (how those high-falutin commies don't understand the struggles of salt-of-the-earth types both to the east and west) then let's go ahead and add those guys as well.
What the heck is the Old North State, a loose confederation of entreprenuerial enterprises beholden to no one other than their own parochial interest? Is the old saying "From Murphy to Manteo" being amended to "What happens in Murphy stays in Murphy, and Manteo can go to hell as far as Murphy is concerned"? Does John think that places like Charlotte, Asheville and Raleigh, beneficiaries of the presence of state-taxpayer-supported schools like UNCC, UNCA and State should hoard the results of this largess and ignore that the kids applying to those school also come from Hoke, Pamlico and Surry counties?
John sincerely, you want your wonderful world, fine, it's in Baghdad, let's buy you a ticket - so can live in a place where one region doesn't give a damn about the other. But if anything North Carolina needs to look after all its own better, not think of it as "other people's money" and start thinkin of it as our state's opportunity. Of course, if he wants it that way, then the state can stop spending my money on incarcerating non-violent criminals, executions and building senseless road projects. but that's not how a government works is it?
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