What would you do to make your Government more efficient and cut waste.

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When mortgage interest relief on homes was removed in the Uk , property values dropped in line with peoples reduced ability to pay mortgages. The concession did nothing except cost the government money pushing up prices.

European farm subsidies also are paid per acre and therefore the biggest farmers who probably need them least get the most money.

The uk has about one mp per 100,000 people, generally considered too many so we are cutting about 50 next election. Each one gets about £100,000 in pay and personal expenses, plus an office and staff.
 

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When mortgage interest relief on homes was removed in the Uk , property values dropped in line with peoples reduced ability to pay mortgages. The concession did nothing except cost the government money pushing up prices.

European farm subsidies also are paid per acre and therefore the biggest farmers who probably need them least get the most money.
How would it cost money? When the deduction counts against a person's taxable income?

For simplicity sake:
100-25=75 and then taxed on the 75
100-0=100 and then taxed on the 100
 

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How would it cost money? When the deduction counts against a person's taxable income?
I meant the allowance against income reduced tax take and so was costing the government money. I guess the ones benefitting were those selling property, but more often than not people who no longer require a house also are not going to benefit from getting more for it, because they are dead. Why governments should be boosting the profits of property speculators I have no idea.
 

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Do away with depts of Energy & Education.
Get rid of the IRS & overhaul the tax system.
Cut federal spending & cap it at 2006 levels.
Get rid of the "czars".
Stop allowing illegals SSI.
Get rid of duplication of departments or services.
 

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Great input posters; quite a bunch of clear, rational thinkers (the intellectuals of the 60s and 70s).

I can see some of you standing on a soapbox in your faovite parks of your cities, speaking from your hearts.

Finally, in fact, most people do not have the intellectual capacity to think anymore. I was a high school English/Communications' teacher in New York and Albuquerque. Just using common sense, boggled the students' minds. Here again, the parents did not teach critical thinking: how to analyze and solve problems, along with creativity. Yeah, most of them were great in the areas of Art, Music, and Sports -- but I am speaking from a somehwat higher level of conceptual analysis.
 

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Divide the country down the middle. It's too big! Make Obama president of one half, and Hillary Clinton president of the other half......Then get rid of the Supreme Court. They're useless anyway. They should be voted in and out by the people. Not picked by partisans. All judges should be as well. Then if large corporations don't want to hire Americans, kick their asses out because they are traitors anyway. Our wealth is slowly being drained from our country by these anti-American traitors.......:usa:Everybody now knows that Texas has a fucked-up governor too.
 
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Divide the country down the middle. It's too big! Make Obama president of one half, and Hillary Clinton president of the other half......Then get rid of the Supreme Court. They're useless anyway. They should be voted in and out by the people. Not picked by partisans. All judges should be as well. Then if large corporations don't want to hire Americans, kick their asses out because they are traitors anyway. Our wealth is slowly being drained from our country by these anti-American traitors.......:usa:Everybody now knows that Texas has a fucked-up governor too.

I've never read such drivel before.