Tax Waste

If our government has enough of our tax money to send $50 billion to Africa for AIDS and $30 billion to the UN for global poverty, why do our school children have to conduct bake sales, sell candy and coupon books, and host other forms of fundraising to supply their needs for education? School trips, athletic programs and equipment, band instruments and trips and community service programs are all dependent on the generosity of citizens who watch their government take more and more of the hard earned income of the working class to squander on other countries and on wasteful projects like bridges and roads to nowhere. Taxing corporations is pointless because they pass the taxes along to consumers as increases in prices for their goods and services. Restricting government spending and international "generosity" and constricting taxes would go further to help our country and our economy than any stimulus package yet proposed.