Eight is Enough

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I'd just love to know what happens with all the tax money that the fedearal, states and citie goverment get evry year.

After I posted this I decided to take a quick look at our states budget in Va. and with a quick search this is waht I found.

2008 to 2010 38 billion
2006 to 2008 36 billion
2004 to 2006 32 billion

Now I went back 10 years
1998 to 2000 21 billion

So in just 10 years the state almost doubled its budget but I fail to see anything the sate has really done to improve itself by doubling its budget in this short time frame. If anything roads are falling apart, schools are under achieving, and I could go on and on about everything else that is actually getting worse despite doubling spending. So I guess the only thing that is happening is that the state is waisting twice as much of our tax dollars as the did ten years ago. Oh and now we are looking at a budget deficet of over 2 billion and they are talking about cut backs in school and other services. I ask what services.

I'd bet that each of us could pull up your states budget and find the same thing with the same results.