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Source:
NewsMax.com
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10 Stupid Ways Politicians Will Spend Tax Dollars
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/16/230216.shtml

CNSNews.com

Tuesday, April 17, 2001

The Libertarian Party used this tax deadline day to remind Americans about 
all the "ridiculous" ways that politicians will use to squander taxpayers' 
money.

Libertarian Party national director Steve Dasbach released the "Top
10 Most Ridiculous Things That Politicians Are Spending Your Money On This 
Year."

1.  A retirement program for chimpanzees.  Congress has created the 
Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection Act (CHIMP), 
which will spend $45,000 an animal in 2001.  "Proving that once again, 
politicians are making a monkey out of the taxpayer," Dasbach said.

2.  Turning your money into dung.  Congress voted to give $4 million to the 
International Fertilizer Development Center for waste research.

3.  Subsidizing politicians' erections.  "Congress's health insurance 
program actually covers Viagra, which demonstrates that the worst case of 
electile dysfunction in the world can be found here in Washington," said 
Dasbach.

4.  Paying teen-agers not to have sex.  An "emergency" spending provision 
in the 2001 military construction bill includes $20 million to pay for a 
teen-age abstinence program.

5.  A Dr.  Seuss memorial.  The HUD (Housing and Urban Development) bill 
contains $400,000 for a memorial to the author of "Green Eggs and Ham" - 
who has left a wealthy estate.  Dasbach called it "a classic case of 
Pork-I-Am."

6.  Spying on your e-mail.  The FBI's Carnivore computer snoopware program 
threatens to take the bite out of your privacy and devour the Fourth Amendment.

7.  Looking at you naked.  U.S Customs officials at dozens of airports are 
now using the high-tech Bodysearch scanner, which can see body contours 
right through your clothes.  "These X-rated X-rays have turned airport 
bureaucrats into peeping Toms and are stripping innocent Americans of their 
privacy," said Dasbach.

8.  Subsidizing a bug lab.  Sen.  Thad Cochran, R-Miss., stung taxpayers 
for $5 million when he inserted money into an agriculture bill to build an 
insect laboratory in his home state of Mississippi, which explains why 
Americans are bugged by high taxes.

9.  Subsidizing religion.  "President Bush's plan to funnel tax dollars to 
faith-based charities shows that what politicians really worship is Big 
Government," said Dasbach.

10.  Urging fat people to walk.  The Centers for Disease Control spent 
$14,900 to decorate a stairwell to encourage obese employees to walk, 
rather than take the elevator.

Thank Clinton The Tax Foundation said Monday that Americans have to work 
from Jan.  1 to May 3 just to pay their federal, state and local 
taxes.  Every year since 1992, the first day of "tax freedom" gets later 
and later.

"Since 1992, when Tax Freedom Day fell on April 18, the total tax burden 
has grown markedly," observed the Tax Foundation's Scott Moody, who 
attributes the growth to higher federal tax collections.

In 2001, Americans had to work an average of 50 days to pay income tax and 
29 days to pay Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes.

Unfortunately for proponents of President Bush's pending $1.6 trillion tax 
cut package, the Tax Foundation reports that a one-time reduction in tax 
rates will only briefly halt Tax Freedom Day from advancing further into May.

"Because the federal tax system depends so much on the income tax, which is 
progressively designed, when you have strong economic growth like we've had 
the last 10 years, people's real income tends to go up ...  and [they] are 
pushed into higher tax brackets," Moody explained.

Though income tax brackets are adjusted for inflation, they are not 
adjusted for annual growth in real income.  "If you wanted to stop [bracket 
creep] in the long run, you would need to move to a flat rate system," or 
cut taxes every year, he said.

Midnight Monday was the deadline to file federal and state income 
taxes.  Because April 15, the usual tax deadline, fell on a Sunday this 
year, the IRS extended the deadline by one day.

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