the BEST case with federal level government is "it's bloated" the more likely case is "money is going to people's friends and being wasted"

The government uses money about as efficiently as a crack addict

at least the addict gets his hit with his money.

private sector debt is and has been a much bigger problem than government debt

for my entire life i have heard
"the roads are crumbleings! we need more money!"
or
"the schools are failing! we need more money!"
and those things just seem to be getting worse.

and the government would not have to accrue debt to deficit spend if they weren't required to "finance" it through the sell of bonds

and of course i would say

that insofar as it is inefficient

well of course, liberals have demanded as much

the government tried to run steamships, those ships lost money.
they tried to build rails, those reails were way outclassed by the rails made by busness who had to earn the money for rails.

they tried to build a plane, they guy they hired said "it can't be done"
not a year later to bike builders got airborn.

they have demanded we have a president who rules only for 8 years at most, they have demanded much power be placed in the hand of a horribly inefficient parliament, they have demanded that the government rule through regulation rather than direction

the ONLY time the government did a good job that i can think of is the moon landings.

it's an inefficient high time preference entity

so how about we don't give them the money and let the locals deal with it?

well i would say make it more efficient

let me ask this, will tell me alot about you.
what do you think about inheritance taxes?

i don't have a strong opinion

so would you say it's fair for someone to leave all they own to their kids?
or should the government get a cut of it?

i don't have a strong opinion either way

pick one please.

nope

why not?

because i don't have a strong opinion either way

like i've said

it's simple, should you chose where the spoils of your entire life go?
or should the government?

i'm not going to repeat myself any more

ok fine, you want to tax the rich at higher rates though.

why not just have a simple flat income tax rate? say 15% no deductions.

in general i would say tax systems should be progressive

to some extent

why?

what did the rich do wrong to be taxed at 30cents on the dollar instend of say 5?

because of the burden placed on the people in question?

so you would burden the poor with a complex tax system to save them a few cents on the dollar?

also because ideally it would limit the power of capitalists, however i do think this could be a sisyphean task under a liberal economic and political system

The problem is massive corporations like Amazon paying low taxes

that's a lie.

Not individual people

amazon pays piles of taxes, they just don't pay "this one tax"

They get around taxes