To be completely honest, I'm not entirely educated on what the government spends most of their money on. I choose to not go out of my way to learn about it because I feel as though it would anger me. I base this decision off of my parents and now they act and react towards the government. They seem to always be angry with decisions and choices Obama or anyone else makes. However, I do have some ideas about how I would correct the few things I do know, and other ways I would make a good government. I think that the government should waste less money on things like welfare and social services and give more to services like police, fire fighting, hospitals, schools, etc. I would also want some of the money to go to the army. Even though a lot of people are against military funding, it is vital to have a large army and military big enough to properly protect our nation. These services are always in need of better equipment, more job positions, or buildings in order to keep running and making our community a better place. This money could be gathered from what would be given to the poor, and some from our other taxes.
Furthermore, from what I do know about the government and taxing, Obama likes to tax the rich so that the poor don't have to do any work. I know that my parents get really angry because my dad makes enough money to be taxed extra. I would definitely change that, from the beginning. It is not fair for people who work extremely hard for their money to have to give more of it back to the government than lazy people who won't work hard. Even though I want to be a teacher when I'm older and won't make half as much as my dad, I still believe it is wrong to tax the rich more. People or families who have lost their jobs often times wait for a long time to get another job because they get welfare AKA the rich's taxes. I think that everyone should be taxed the same amount, barely adjusted based on incomes, and some of that income should go for people who have been recently unemployed. However after a certain amount of time being unemployed, they should stop receiving government money, as an incentive to go find a job.
Overall, I feel as though my manifesto is extremely wrong and bias based loosely off of what little I know about the government's spending. I think that there is no perfect answer to how to run the government's spending. Obviously there are countless things that citizen's taxes pay for, but I believe that the rich should not be taxed a lot more just because they work hard. It is not fair at all, and people should be rewarded for working hard, not have to pay more. So with my new plan to tax everyone around the same, that would generate money to spend on social services. I also think that we should stop spending so much on the poor and supporting their unemployment, and that should be incentive to get a job.
QUESTION: How does the government decide what to spend money on?
