Dear Editor:
The federal government is projected to spend $3,897,000 million in FY2016, about $31,000 per household. Of that $4,750, 15.3 percent, is for national defense; $700 (2.3 percent, is for transportation (roads and bridges?); $12,000, 38.6 percent is the payout for Social Security and Medicare, the largest income redistribution schemes ever forced on Americans, until Obamacare; $1900, 6.1 percent, is for paying interest on the insane level of national debt. I'm not sure how much value we get for the remaining $11,650 per month.
Missouri's budget is $27 billion, about $11,500 per Missouri household.
Approximate total of federal and state spending is $42,500 per household. This does not even include local government spending.
Does your household get government services worth $42,500 per year? Does your household pay its fair share of the $42,500 government costs you? If not, how much of your share of the cost of government do you think the government should force others to pay?
I realize that some of the state's spending is money that the feds collect from Missouri taxpayers so that they can control our actions as they dole it back out to us, I just don't have a handle on the magnitude.
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