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Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
Everyone can tell you're very pro-tax from reading your posts. Why not just pay more in taxes since you believe in it so strongly?
That's a strawman. I just believe in everyone paying what they are obligated to pay. The problem I have is with posters like you and lifeexplorer who don't want to pay your obligation
If people like you who believe so strongly in taxes would step up and pay more... put your money where your mouths are... that would benefit everyone. Do it!
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
27,606 posts, read 14,610,214 times
Reputation: 9169
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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
If people like you who believe so strongly in taxes would step up and pay more... put your money where your mouths are... that would benefit everyone. Do it!
You're only obligated to pay for things you choose. If I go to the cable company and sign up for internet, I'm obligated to fulfill that contract.
If the cable company decides to give me all kinds of other services and then bills me for it, I'm not obligated to pay since I never agreed to that.
I'm not even obligated to pay if they claim I'm in their network area, and that simply by living there I agreed to an ongoing contract with them - one that they make up as they go along.
Doesn't work that way, and its special pleading to claim that those rules apply to everyone but the government.
The financial incentive of being rich, helps keep the brightest minds in this county and their businesses and money from leaving this county.
You start taxing the rich then you remove the incentive for ingenuity and entrepreneurship. Rich people start outsourcing their companies, moving money offshore, renouncing their citizenship, etc.
Let a lone bureaucrats have no idea how to effectively and efficiently use taxpayer money and somehow need more and more of it.
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