Save Tax Dollars: Reduce Costs; Merge and Organize Governments
By Tom
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Save Tax Dollars presents data pointing out the lack of proper organization of state and county governments that has added a very large amount of government overhead and resulted in inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. Federal, state, county, and local governments have not followed tenets used in the business world to establish efficiency and effectiveness.
Why are you paying for excess government overhead? Are you satisfied with the current government organization? Are you ready for a change?
Save Tax Dollars provides data that supports reorganization of government to save you paying excessive tax dollars.
Tom
Tom Robinson was born March 8, 1964 in Wilmington, N.C. He found his passion in life to be the fire service to which many hours have been committed in the past thirty years. For nine years this service came as a volunteer firefighter, and then it became a career path in his professional life. Many life experiences throughout his career led him to find poetry as an outlet to express feelings and emotions not normally shared in this profession. Tom attended Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, N.C. and is a graduate of Columbia Southern University in Alabama. Tom received a bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection/Occupational Safety. Tom is currently an Assistant Chief in the fire service. Tom does have one work that has been recognized in the wake of 9-11. “In Remembrance” became the official poem for the Remembrance Flag and copies of this poem are sent with each flag purchased. Life is for experiencing and poetry allows those experiences to be expressed.
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Save Tax Dollars - Tom
Contents
Author’s Note
Acknowlogements
Foreward
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Epilogue
Author’s Note
The author has studied decision-making processes and their relationship to organization. With proper organization of the federal, state, county, and local governments, there will be tremendous savings in taxpayer dollars. The author has relied on Internet search engines to confirm the facts that support the conclusions contained in this book. Therefore, the facts are readily available to the reader.
Acknowlogements
The author thanks his wife, Eunice, for putting up with him for sixty-five years. A special thanks to iUniverse Publishers, especially. As always the editorial help is greatly appreciated and is invaluable. Thanks for the major editorial help.
Foreward
The present governments in the United States were established in the eighteenth century. Now that we are in the twenty-first century, it is time for reorganization of the federal government and improvements in the organization of our state, county, and local governments. The First Constitutional Congress established the Congress, an Office of the President, and the Supreme Court. Powers were granted to each of the three branches of the federal government. The organization of the state, county, and local governments was not mentioned in the Constitution.
From the data presented in this book, it is obvious that the lack of proper organization of state and county governments has added a very large amount of government overhead and resulted in inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. Federal, state, county, and local governments have not followed tenets used in the business world to establish efficiency and effectiveness.
The words of the U.S. Constitution are not set in stone. The Constitution allows amendments. The federal budget has a large deficit, and the federal debt is in the trillion-dollar range. Most taxpayers believe the federal government is dysfunctional.
The lack of a standard requirement for population of the States has resulted in large variations in state populations. This population difference has led to an oversized Congress. The members of Congress have various and widely different agendas.
Today, only five states do not have a budget deficit. There are major differences in the number of county governments within a state. Within these various counties, there are large and small local governments. All of these governments—state, county, and local—add overhead to the budgets.
A merger could decrease overhead spending and provide a tax base that meets budget demands. Increasing the number of taxpayers for each of these governments would reduce the individual taxpayer’s burden. Government borders need to be set in order to establish efficient and effective governments.
Chapter 1
Reasons Why Taxpayers and Voters Should Follow the Actions of the Colonies
Since the eighteenth century Americans have always been in charge of their destiny. The citizens have come together to fight adversity. We have seen the American spirit in times of war and peace. The great Depression, the Manhattan Project, cure of Polio, and the NASA program are all examples of America’s success. America can reorganize the federal government, and organize state, county and local governments. This effort will save billions and over time trillions of tax dollars.
In the eighteenth century, the British wanted to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party, so they put in place tax laws to produce social changes in the colonies. The laws increased dissatisfaction in the colonies and led to the Declaration of Independence. This error in decision-making judgments by the British government was most likely due to the distance of the point of the decision from those affected by the decision. Distance from the individuals affected by a decision is only one factor. Another factor is cultural and social understanding of the individuals affected by the decision.
Another error made by the British was the use of tax laws to bring about a change in society. Tax dollars should be used to fund the government; thus, it is improper to use tax laws to bring about changes in society. When a government uses taxes improperly, the laws complicate the tax codes and make them very difficult to enforce.
These same British mistakes are being made by Washington today. The tax codes are complicated by the use of tax laws by the president and Congress to bring about changes in society. It is time for a taxpayers’ Declaration of Independence.
As was stated in the original Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Borders are established by people, and these borders can be changed for the benefit of the people. In Europe the borders of each country are established by ethnic and language differences. In the United States, English is the official language, and our melting-pot society allows borders to be drawn for other reasons. These reasons will be discussed in detail.
Do the citizens of the United States feel safe and happy
today? Discussions and polls have shown that about 75 percent of the citizens are