we're talking about taxes
taxes right you think you think you pay too much
all right well you
is what they said and do you think you'd get what you pay for
that's hard to say you know i think it take a lot for granted you know and it's the the quick answer i think would be that you pay too much taxes you know but but i think if you think about it
yeah
um all the highways we have all the uh federal programs we have whether they're good or bad um
sure seems like you do get a bang you know it seems like a lot of stuff's going on even though every paycheck a lot of money's coming out
um i don't know i don't know it seems like so i used to think that government spent too much and they probably do but
you know when you go to your doctor your doctor's private also and uh they're gonna charge you a good buck for whatever they're doing also so well what do you think
right
well i really feel in some areas that uh i agree i don't think any of us like paying taxes i think in some areas we could do better in a private sector
i think it just i've done some reading on this and some and in some of the areas you know you're lucky to get back a a dime on a dollar on some programs
uh but i also know that people to me won't do what they should do to help each other and they wouldn't have so much government if we did
and uh we get you know gets forced into it i think socialized medicine's coming which i hate to see but i think because there's so many people without insurance that's what's coming you know it's coming
yeah it's needed
uh-huh
so uh
but no i don't probably feel like i get back what i pay now you do you pay state income tax in
yeah i i pay actually state city and federal
yeah see here a lot of people think in Texas we're lucky because we don't pay um state income tax but they get us in other ways you know
and
yeah well i i just figured it out today i get uh i think my my two week pay is sixteen hundred and eleven dollars or something like that sixteen sixteen something around there and my
take home after taxes is about eleven
um yeah
so five hundred dollars every two weeks comes out you know and obviously if you make
you know forty thousand dollars a year you're paying ten thousand in dollars a year in taxes and everybody who's in that type of income is paying that
yeah
i think that's another problem
you know plus sales tax right
uh yeah well that's where they got us here you know every time they need something they up the quote user's fees or the sin taxes you know on beer and such
sure sure and plus you pay if you buy cigarettes you pay tax on that if you buy beer
yeah so just because we don't have a state income tax they get us proportionately higher in other areas
yeah yeah
so i don't know
you
you don't have a state income tax in Texas
no
that's so yeah that's not so bad but they still have to get the money somewhere to
they get it somewhere and and the problem is with that if you have a state income tax you can take it off you federal
yeah
so we can't take our any of our sales taxes or anything off anymore because of the reform
but that's what they up it they up it on gasoline they up it on um say beer and cigarettes uh
user's fee driver's license license plates it all just keeps going up and up and up and they tell us it's not really taxes
you know you know but
right
it is and uh no i don't know i don't know what the answer is to all this i think uh
same difference
what
i don't know
i i think it's a i i don't know i i think i think it's like private like you said privatization is good because
you know when the profit uh one good thing that could be said for the profit motive is people aren't going to run a business at a loss i happen to work for a city for the City of New York and uh that's the attitude that uh at least my agency takes
right
you know they they when they take the attitude that uh this is a business
right
and and if you're not going to run it profitably then you're going to be out of business because they are going to privatize it so in that sense you know at my agency and and it's unique i think for government agencies is revenue producing
right
and we make more money than we than we cost so uh
well that's really unusual
so nobody's ever going to question my salary or anybody else on my staff uh especially my unit because my unit is a revenue producing unit uh there are other
right
you know things that that may i mean look at that i was talking to my father the other day about the NASA program
you know he thought it was kind of ridiculous we spend all this money to send these rocket ships up into space and stuff but yet then again they come up with all these scientific discoveries that may help save us sometime i mean i think it was NASA
right
that we've learned a lot
yeah you do learn a lot so you're not you you know you're paying all this money but you're getting something back for it uh
yeah
you know military spending is the same thing whether you agree or you disagree with building all these bombs and stuff which i happen to have a tendency to disagree with
uh you know we are buying protection you know we are protecting ourselves from from uh from other countries that we may be afraid of whether it's right
yeah
