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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
But what is wasted money. For me it would definitely be allowing oil and gas companies the ability to not pay their municipal taxes and giving churches tax exempt status. For others it is probably something different. People who say they don’t mind paying their taxes but get grumpy when it is “wasted” are just folks who don’t like paying taxes and then pick some pet project that they deem as “wasteful”
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Your examples are missed opportunities to collect tax, not wasted money (post collection).
When people complain about wasted money, they're talking about the tax that has already been collected is going to wastseful allocations.
But I agree it's subjective & one person's waste project is a service another person really wants.