[jonallanharper]

You seem to think that $10 out of $10 in taxes goes directly towards roads, schools, or whatever. In reality, about $2 out of the $10 is actually spent for the those purposes.

$6 out of the $10 is a dead weight loss... completely consumed by government waste and inefficiency. The remaining $2 of the $10 is effectively transferred to bank accounts of politicians & friends via bribes, political donations, and outright theft.

[tptacek]

Six dollars out of every ten dollars spent by local, state, and federal governments are dead weight loss? Cite a credible source, please.

[Anechoic]

You seem to think that $10 out of $10 in taxes goes directly towards roads, schools, or whatever.

I never said anything about the direct allocation of tax dollars.

$6 out of the $10 is a dead weight loss... completely consumed by government waste and inefficiency.

Of course there is waste in government spending, just as there is in private spending (hey, we just can't get around the laws of thermodynamics). But do you have any (reputable) sources to back up your assertion that 60% of government spending gets lost as "waste and inefficiency"?

[jab]

Bullshit. Got a citation for those figures?