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(3,344 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Expenses continue to accrue.
no_hypocrisy
(46,009 posts)You'd be starving off funds necessary to keep the REST of the government running.
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titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)That makes no sense. First off the military still operates. Second, most Federal employees will be back paid so the money needs to be there. Third we have bills to pay...really big ones.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,571 posts)Money is needed to keep the agencies working that are still open; for back pay for federal workers who aren't being paid now; and to repair the damage that will be caused by the shutdown.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)if we were to keep that money. Infrastructure, schools, police, food safety, courts, etc. would never be paid for.
Demit
(11,238 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)the lives of millions of people. The people affected by the shutdown are not only the federal government employees but people on Medicare, social security, etc. Not paying taxes during the shutdown would be the GOP dream come true....the goverment would be "drown in the bathtub ".
duforsure
(11,884 posts)Should stop all spending that can possibly be done to protest trump and the republicans, and there's nothing he can do from it. Until he's out of office people should stop supporting his policies and corruption running wild now.
FSogol
(45,435 posts)Just pay your fucking taxes, repubs. That's how we build a decent and just society.
rickford66
(5,521 posts)There ought to be a law.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Us common folks are hurting with the high taxes.