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You would be surprised how much we pay for healthcare, and things like that. You would also be surprised by how little the highest percent pays in actual taxes. Klein pointed it out to me a few days ago in regards to why there were so few Americans caught up in the Panama Papers debacle. There is money, it's just not being used effectively.
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It's not just that. I'm in mobile so I can't dig up links right now, but the US brings in an ass load of money still. We just often make horrible decisions on how to spend it. To make matters worse, there's a lot of grey area on how we spend our money as well, where in some instances it's clearly beneficial to spend money in one situation, but a similar situation is nothing but a money pit.