TheBrutalTruth
Well-Known Member
I see LOCAL TAXES, LOCAL TAXES, and an opposition to the crap pushed by the Federal Government.you presume too much and
you have a gift for the mental leap.
i don't want to steal anyone's money.
how you go from 'do your own research' to 'i want to steal your money' is beyond me. maybe you should take some money and see a head doctor. i didn't accuse you of being greedy, just selfish and nearsighted. maybe you can go live in a country with dirt roads and cholera in the water where you don't have to pay taxes. Or, and this is a good idea, give your money away and live like jesus said to. after all, it is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.
and as far as the tax bit goes.
we get nearly nothing back.
and pay taxes every time we grocery shop, or
pay the cable bill, or the power bill.
every time we send mail or eat at burgerking or get a smog certificate
or buy alcohol or cigarettes.
people have been exhasperated by taxes as long as there has been government.
but i like snow removal and i want my police to have gas in their cars and the paramedics to have a
modern ambulance and streetlights and public schools and libraries and traffic lights and so on.
it's a tradeoff. because i dont like war, or israel, or ethanol, or nuclear missiles makes them no less real.
so, as a pragmatist, i accept things as they are. seems like if you were truly concerned you'd be lobying for change, or doing something proactive instead of bitching to a bunch of stoners on a weed forum. because, dude, i'd like to help you. but i dont care.
What, I saw what kind of change is being pushed by Obama, and I rejected it out of hand.
As far as me advocating for Change...
Who has the time to do that?
Politicians and people that don't have jobs.
And the kind of change politicians want, and those with out jobs want is not the kind of change I want.
I want drastically lower Federal Taxes, not to be forced to pay more taxes.
Especially not on something like smoking a damn cigarette.
I don't want the Federal Government, or the State Government, telling an owner of a Bar that they can't allow smoking inside the Bar, or in a Restaurant.
I don't want the Federal Government or the State Governments interfering in every small walk of life.
About the only useful service provided at the Federal Level is the military, and it's only useful when its defending our nation.
Which it's not doing right now. Al Qaida isn't nearly as big of a threat as the drug gangs from Central America that are operating in our borders. how many Americans have those people killed?
Yet neither party seems to be willing to tell Europe, Japan and Korea to take care of their own defense so we can secure our own borders.
At a state level the only useful service is the police, and even that's debatable based on the fact that they are stuck enforcing stupid laws that make crimes out of what should not be crimes.
Then there's the overall inefficiency of the system.
President $400,000 a year, I think $100,000 would be more than fair, it's not like the politicians that are pursuing the office are doing it for the country's good any longer. They are doing it for their own selfish, self-centered reasons.
Senators/Representatives $200,000 , $50,000/year. If they want more than what the average American Earns then Too Damn Bad For Them, unless they are willing to find a way to make America more prosperous with out inflating our money supply (which does absolutely nothing to really increase the standard of living.)
Then there's School Administrators making $300,000/year. Why don't the teacher's complain about that?
What about the fact that it's nigh on impossible for a public school to fire a non-performing teacher?
Oh, yeah, lots of efficiency there...
The system is totally broken, the only way to fix it, is to dismantle it completely and start from scratch.
I don't want change, I want a new start.
Though here's one for you. Since you seem so bent on proving that you pay taxes. What's your definition of fair taxes then?
Me, personally, I always thought that meant that everyone pays an equal amount, not percentage, or anything socialist.
I don't object to being asked to pull my fair share. I do object to being asked to pull more than my fair share.