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Your erstwhile tax dollars cease to be yours the moment you send a check to Uncle Sam. Your former dollars are no more than the money that you pay to a a condominium association, homeowner's association or dues to a club or organization. And while you will have some degree in how the groups money is spent, it ain't yours no more.
Taxes are like dues, paying them is the price of membership and for the goods and services they provide. If you don't what the club, condo, homeowners association spends money on, then vote for new directors, if that doesn't work and you don't like the decisions of the club, quit. If you don't like the condo association, move. But forget about the idea that money paid in is your money. It ain't.
This rant paid for with my money.
Great description and explanation. The tax paying thing seems to cause enormous confusion for many people. LOL
Your erstwhile tax dollars cease to be yours the moment you send a check to Uncle Sam. Your former dollars are no more than the money that you pay to a a condominium association, homeowner's association or dues to a club or organization. And while you will have some degree in how the groups money is spent, it ain't yours no more.
Taxes are like dues, paying them is the price of membership and for the goods and services they provide. If you don't what the club, condo, homeowners association spends money on, then vote for new directors, if that doesn't work and you don't like the decisions of the club, quit. If you don't like the condo association, move. But forget about the idea that money paid in is your money. It ain't.
Not Yours To Give - Colonel Davy Crockett (http://www.juntosociety.com/patriotism/inytg.html - broken link)
Not Yours To Give
Col. David Crockett
US Representative from Tennessee
If only every Member of Congress had this wisdom, insight & commitment to the Constitution and what Powers it grants as well as does not give.
If only every American understood and held them to it.
Bless you for posting this.
I Pray that many take the time to take it in and learn.
Taxes are like dues, paying them is the price of membership and for the goods and services they provide.
Are you suggesting that the 47% or so of Americans who pay ZERO federal income tax are not "members" of America and therefore have no say?
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The tax paying thing seems to cause enormous confusion for many people. LOL
Say It Ain't So Occtavo !
