Mach
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I never understood this mentality that taxes are a punishment.
Taxes are just paying the upkeep on the country. That's it.
Come on. Everything else I pay upkeep on I have a CHOICE in the matter, a direct one, and it can be modified almost on a whim.
If I don't like the upkeep cost of my lawn, I can do it myself, or get an apartment or a garden home. If I don't like the upkeep of my fish tank, I can sell it.
if I try to democratically push government to reduce some of the thigns I do NOT want to keep paying upkeep on, it's difficult, time consuming, not up to me, etc., etc.
THEN you'll get some liberal on this forum...for example, telling me I have no reason to examine whether or not I want to pay government upkeep in the FIRST PLACE!! Even though every other form of upkeep, I both examine and control (to a large degree!)
God damn!!!!!!!!
And furthermore, one has to ask, how much did you pay in taxes? Can you comprehend that paying enormous sums of earned money to provide upkeep for thigns you really don't need, or want, or feel are justified, is not a good thing?
And that if you busted ass for a long time, and you saw your taxes go up, and up and, up, the more you work the more you payed, and by the end you're paying more in taxes per year than you made in salary the first 5 years, you might start to understand why it's punishment. Then to hear the justifications for it, and see that 47% pay effectively no federal taxes, then the class warfare....
I do a lot of things that I feel I have to, doesn't mean I sugar coat it and deny it's punishment. I hate going to the doctor, it's punishment to me, but I still value it. Paying taxes is a burden, and it's by in large involuntary. You can argue about the rest, but not about that.
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