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Old 09-07-2012, 04:29 AM
 
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Do you know of a country you can move to that is similar to ours but the people pay less in taxes?

Americans' tax burden is lightest in developed world - USATODAY.com

 
Old 09-07-2012, 04:44 AM
 
Location: Center of the universe
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They shut down online poker. The government has no business interfering in anyone's right to play this game of skill.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 04:50 AM
 
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Do you know of a country you can move to that is similar to ours but the people pay less in taxes?

Americans' tax burden is lightest in developed world - USATODAY.com
tell that to the poor people in this country.

the burden used to be lighter, and most of us don't care what they do in other countries because we want to live here.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 05:16 AM
 
Location: Metairie, La.
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Catto, I think the answers are in. The government-is-interfering-in-my-life people have spoken. The consensus is that they don't like taxes. Just like everything else, it comes down to money.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 05:27 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Catto, I think the answers are in. The government-is-interfering-in-my-life people have spoken. The consensus is that they don't like taxes. Just like everything else, it comes down to money.
If you do not think money is important try not having any.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 05:39 AM
 
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It's all I've got, so it's all they can take.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 05:42 AM
 
Location: Metairie, La.
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If you do not think money is important try not having any.
How does the adage go? The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 06:13 AM
 
Location: Houston
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How does the adage go? The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
Yep, and I don't look forward to either one.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 06:19 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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I keep reading about the government intervening in folks lives, so I'm curious to know what is it that you are doing that I'm not. I ask because I trying to figure out why the government has been interfering in mine. Outside of a few traffic signals, and having to pay a toll to return to Philadelphia from New Jersey I've had absolutely zero interactions with the government, government policies or anything that could be remotely construed as being present much less interfering in my life.

Can you folks who have the government poking into the life's help figure out what makes you so special?
When you can tell us where you read this and what is being said, we can have a discussion.

News Flash: Government makes laws and those laws effect peoples lives. When those laws stop people or businesses from doing something the lawmakers think they shouldn't be doing, those doing that call it "interfering."

Be that as it may, I am glad government "interferes" with drug makers who want to put untested drugs on the market; I am glad government "interferes" with meat packing plants that want to sell tainted meat; I am glad government "interferes" with airlines that want to stretch the maintenance of aircraft parts; I am glad government "interferes" with industry that think the waterways are theirs to dump their industrial waste; I am glad government "interferes" with mining companies who want to exploit their worker's health and safety.

Your liberty to swing your arms ends at my nose. When what you do impacts the whole society, government should regulate that.
 
Old 09-07-2012, 06:47 AM
 
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I keep reading about the government intervening in folks lives, so I'm curious to know what is it that you are doing that I'm not. I ask because I trying to figure out why the government has been interfering in mine. Outside of a few traffic signals, and having to pay a toll to return to Philadelphia from New Jersey I've had absolutely zero interactions with the government, government policies or anything that could be remotely construed as being present much less interfering in my life.

Can you folks who have the government poking into the life's help figure out what makes you so special?

1. Confiscating large amounts of my income to distribute to others who did not earn it.

2. Forcing me into a social security program I do not want

3. Forcing me into Obamacare, which I do not want

4. preventing me from purchasing automatic weapons

5. preventing me from purchasing cheaper coal fired electricity

6. preventing me from having the right to purchase less energy efficient appliances (which used to work)

7. preventing my vote from having the impact it should by allowing illegals and the dead to vote

8. preventing me from contributing as much as I want to a political candidate

9. making me pay for public schools when we have never used them


Government get out of my life
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