I'm as disgusted as anyone when tax money is wasted on inefficiency and corruption; even true believers in government programs should be, because every wasted tax dollar is one less that can provide real benefits through those programs. We need better oversight, less sinecures and streamlined policies and procedures (and just to be clear, my mother retired from the state government, where she saw firsthand that the biggest problem with government isn't overpaid and underworked employees, but the hordes of politically appointed executives doing little more than collecting a salary. )

My point on tax "reform" is that I'm very cynical about it since the biggest "success story" of my life time was a reform that reduced already relatively low tax levels for the wealthiest at the expense of greater taxes on those barely getting by to begin. A (poor, IMHO) argument can be made those paying the most pay too much, but if the complaint is "taxes are too high!" how does it make sense to RAISE taxes on ANYONE, much less the people with the least money? Yet that's what was done, and as committed as I am to community, it's hard for me to see that as anything more than people feathering an already well insulated nest at others expense, and the countrys.