Funding Protection Against Injury
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 11:42AM March 6, 2008
Categories: Q-and-A Club: Exploring Social and Political Issues
By Arlene Harder, MFT
TAX-AND-SPEND GAME CATEGORY FOUR
- To understand what this topic is all about, read:
How Will the Election Change Our Taxes?
Rules of the Tax-and-Spend Game
- You can see the same questions I raise today if you go to Funding Protection Against Injury in the Q-and-A Club section of the Support4Change website. There you will also be able to access all eleven categories of the game that I post on this blog every-other-day.
- Play the Tax-and-Spend Game and enter a drawing. See form below.
- Share the Tax-and-Spend Game with your family and friends so they can better decide what programs they want the government to fund and what programs they are willing to do without if they don’t want to raise their taxes.
How do you want your taxes to be spent to protect you, and others, against injury?
When toys are recalled from Mattel and beef is withdrawn from school cafeterias, there is a loud outcry over the lack of regulation and controls needed to protect us from dangers that may hide in any product we buy, from the food we consume to the clothing we wear.
However, safety requires testing and testing requires funding, which may only come partly through fees paid to government agencies by businesses that want their customers to be assured that the products they sell will do no harm.
In addition to testing and inspection of products bought by the consumer is the enforcement of safety rules for workers.
Then there is the very basic matter of protection from injury by fire, for which we pay our fire departments (with a few communities able to get by with volunteers). Yet here, as with other services we expect to be available when we need them, we can be skimpy in funding fire services, as happened in San Diego County in California. In recent large fires many homes were saved by valiant fire fighters, but there was not enough equipment because the voters had not approved the necessary funding.
If you are aware of other programs funded by local, state, and/or national taxes that help protect us from injury that are not included in this list, please let me know. Use the Contact Us form.
Enforcement of workplace safety rules
- Enforcement of laws to assure safe food and drugs
- Testing of products used in the home ranging from children’s toys to soap and polish
- Fire fighting services including adequate equipment
- Enforcement of air safety standards
- Programs to prevent sexual and physical abuse
- Enforcement of car safety standards
Enter a drawing for “Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life” after you have finished this category of the Tax-and-Spend Game
Each week for eleven weeks I will give away my latest book, Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life. All you have to do is to complete one of the eleven Tax-and-Spend Game categories and fill out this form.
NOTE #1: All fields are required.
NOTE #2: I will not share your name with anyone and I won’t put you on my newsletter list unless you subscribe yourself on the subscription form on Support4Change Newsletter or on the blog’s Welcome page. This is just information I need for this one drawing, but if you don’t give me your correct email address I won’t be able to contact you if you win.
NOTE #3: You can enter as often as you like, but each entry must be for a different Tax-and-Spend Game category
Hope you enjoy the Tax-and-Spend Game and learn something in the process. I’d love to hear what you think about it. Add a comment to this page or use the Contact Us form on Support4Change to send me your comments or ask a question.
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