How are your tax dollars spent???

[SEIndSAM]

This may be interesting. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft fame has spent the last couple of years collecting government data on how many tax dollars go out, and then, how it is spent. Claims it's 100% unbiased, just govt data.

Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove

 

[HubertGummer]

I think I can safely answer, POORLY!

 

[HoughMade]

I think I can safely answer, POORLY!

Beat me to it.

 

[JettaKnight]

This Steve Ballmer?

[video=youtube;RINizGmhrYo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINizGmhrYo[/video]

[STRIKE]EDIT: What does this thread have to do about guns? [/STRIKE]

 

[rob63]

From the article:

"One rule Mr. Ballmer said his team made early on was to use only government data — no outside providers — to avoid accusations of bias. But this created its own challenges.

For example, Mr. Ballmer, said: “You know it’s not legal to know how many firearms that are in this country? The government is not allowed to collect the number.”

There is data for the number of firearms manufactured, licenses, inspections, “along with other data, but not a total,” he said. “I can’t show it! I’m shocked! But the N.R.A. apparently has lobbied in such a way government can’t report the data.”"

 

[AtTheMurph]

Ballmer is a leftist. He believes government is a charity and as such there is no limit then to what the government should and can be able to do, at least according to Ballmer.

That's a very dangerous position if one believes in personal liberty rather than collectivism.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

My tax dollars? They were probably spent sometime during the Reagan administration. I'll probably be dead before they start paying for the loans for spending today.

 

[KittySlayer]

From the article:

"One rule Mr. Ballmer said his team made early on was to use only government data — no outside providers — to avoid accusations of bias.

Just because it's government data does not mean it is not biased.

For example, Mr. Ballmer, said: “You know it’s not legal to know how many firearms that are in this country? The government is not allowed to collect the number.”

He sought to “figure out what the government really does with the money,”

What does the number of firearms have to do with how my tax dollars are spent?

 

[jbombelli]

Your tax dollars are spent on interest payments on all the bonds the federal government has sold.

 

[actaeon277]

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What does the number of firearms have to do with how my tax dollars are spent?

Everything, if you're an anti-gunner.