All countries spy on each other. It's pretty stupid but all countries do so.
Well, certainly tariffs and agreements to respect each other's rights are much more civilized responses to these thefts than some of the alternatives.
If China is willing to pay $10's of Billions in order to keep stealing from us, why are we obligated to allow them to steal for free?
When you start advocating for a tax increase to pay for Trump's bail outs, I'll take you seriously.
Those are tax increases, just not being paid by Americans. That seems to stick in your craw a little.
Why do you only look at the income side of the ledger? The Federal Government is taking in more money today than at any time in their history. I have a feeling they might be able to "make do" on $3,619,066,000,000 a year. How much a day do you figure that is?
Why do you have no focus on using what funds already being supplied, more efficiently? Some Lefties are now openly admitting that they support taxation not so much for it's funding effects as its
punishing effects. There are certain people they hate and they want to use the power of government to hurt them. Unless they are acting illegally, I don't support the Left punishing those they have otherized through punitive government policy.
Do you know that the US Government has so much property that they cannot even put together an accurate list of the properties they own? They all need upkeep, insurance and so forth and many have been vacant for years.
With more than three billion square feet of real estate under its aegis, the federal government is far and away the largest landlord in the country. Much of that property – acquired over the years to help agencies fulfill their diverse missions -- is of little or no use to the government today. Yet Congress has appropriated billions of dollars over the years simply to preserve the unneeded and unwanted property that agencies can’t unload.
In fiscal 2010 – the last year for which accurate data is available – the government
spent $1.67 billion operating and maintaining 295,000 underutilized or vacant buildings. The annual cost of preserving the surplus property has steadily added to the deficit.
Here is some prime Federal Property
A 132-year-old building owned by the federal government, just six blocks from the White House, has been sitting empty for three decades.
I want to see them do a better job with what we are already sending them, before we send them anymore.
