{"id":6433,"date":"2011-08-02T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2011-08-02T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:37:09","slug":"our-tax-dollars-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=6433","title":{"rendered":"Our Tax Dollars at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagofnothing.com\" target=\"_blank\">BagOfNothing <\/a>called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2011\/05\/18\/102-things-not-to-do-if-you-hate-taxes\/\">101 Things NOT to Do If You Hate Taxes<\/a>. Although I certainly wouldn&#8217;t argue that every dollar spent by our various government agencies goes to a worthy cause, this article does a great job of listing dozens of services that our tax dollars provide. We all use many of these services every day. Others we&#8217;ll probably never use, but could be lifesavers if we ever need them. <\/p>\n<p>Like many of you, I think our federal government spends too much money. It shouldn&#8217;t spend more than it takes in any more than a business should. But if you don&#8217;t want to raise taxes to cover what we&#8217;re already spending, which of these items would you scale back? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes I found a great article on BagOfNothing called 101 Things NOT to Do If You Hate Taxes. Although I certainly wouldn&#8217;t argue that every dollar spent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=6433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}