[quote=paramount][quote=briansd1]Not to say that there wasn’t waste, but at least government spending on salaries and pensions went to millions of ordinary people so their lives could be more enjoyable. [/quote]

Is this a sarcastic comment? All that spending on salaries and pensions has to come from somewhere.

And I’ll tell you where it comes from: people who produce.

For their lives to become more enjoyable someone else’s had to become inordinately less enjoyable.[/quote]
No, where it came from is tax cuts for the very very top elite few.

Our country was most balanced, most productive, and most secure when we had top tax rates at the modern equivalent of $10M+ at 90%