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LOL. when exactly did you forget we the people are the government?
I would imagine the forgetting occurs when the two clones we get to "choose" from in an election both do the same thing: ignore the taxpayer, make government bigger and less responsive, and spend, spend, spend, spend, spend........
OP is right on the money. I say let the conservatives and libertarians stop paying taxes, since they want all of "their" money in their pocket. In exchange, they can't use any public roads, use any police or fire services, take any public transit, walk on public sidewalks, stand under public streetlights at night... et cetera.
The fact of the matter is, taxes are the dues that we pay for the privilege of living in a (semi-)civilized society, with civilized infrastructure. Ain't no getting around that. Thom Hartmann wrote about this in one of his books a few years ago, in fact. His analogy was basically you walking into a 7-11 with a dollar in your pocket. You grab a Hershey bar and bite into it. That Hershey bar is now yours, and the dollar now belongs to 7-11. The roads you drive on, the sidewalks you walk on, the police and fire protecting you, all that kind of stuff... it's services you get living day to day, that are paid for by the money you OWE the GOVERNMENT for USING the services. Period. If you use public services, roads being the most prevalent, that tax money is NOT yours. It's what you owe for using the services you receive.
LOL. when exactly did you forget we the people are the government?
Actually, the people are not the government. Read the actual Constitution not the tea party edition.
The government is a separate entity all together, it governs through the consent of the governed which by definition, syntax and common grammatical usage indicates that they are two separate entities.
I would imagine the forgetting occurs when the two clones we get to "choose" from in an election both do the same thing: ignore the taxpayer, make government bigger and less responsive, and spend, spend, spend, spend, spend........
They may be ignoring you, and probably for good reasons, but they are obviously listening to the majority of the constituents since the majority elect them into office. The fact that you have only "two clones" to "choose" from is whose fault?
OP is right on the money. I say let the conservatives and libertarians stop paying taxes, since they want all of "their" money in their pocket. In exchange, they can't use any public roads, use any police or fire services, take any public transit, walk on public sidewalks, stand under public streetlights at night... et cetera.
The fact of the matter is, taxes are the dues that we pay for the privilege of living in a (semi-)civilized society, with civilized infrastructure. Ain't no getting around that. Thom Hartmann wrote about this in one of his books a few years ago, in fact. His analogy was basically you walking into a 7-11 with a dollar in your pocket. You grab a Hershey bar and bite into it. That Hershey bar is now yours, and the dollar now belongs to 7-11. The roads you drive on, the sidewalks you walk on, the police and fire protecting you, all that kind of stuff... it's services you get living day to day, that are paid for by the money you OWE the GOVERNMENT for USING the services. Period. If you use public services, roads being the most prevalent, that tax money is NOT yours. It's what you owe for using the services you receive.
In case you hadn't noticed, our wonderful infrastructure is in shambles because all the tax money is being used to subsidize everyone BUT the taxpayers.
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The tax paying thing seems to cause enormous confusion for many people. LOL
