Its your loss pal. I guess you want to dish it out but cannot take it. Fine with me.
I do notice that your posts are pretty much just bumper sticker cliches from the right wing.
Yes, well, that is swell. I already said what I think of yours.
The usual rightist libertarian malarkey that is the kool-aid of the True Believers. Your worshipping before the altar of right wing ideology is evidenced in this comment from you concerning taxes and your invocation of Robin Hood
You appear to hate Atlas Strugged I see, I wonder if Ayn Rand said anything about Robin Hood in Atlas Strugged?
"[Robin Hood] is the man who became a symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don‘t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. . . . Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive."
-- Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, 1957)
She could always nail you guys to the wall. Hell, when she wrote or spoke about you people it wasn't so much you guys being nailed to the wall it more like you guys becoming part of the wall. Always wonderful.
Btw, what I said about Robin Hood was not from what she said about Robin Hood. I have thought bad of Robin Hood since I was in high school a decade ago and I didn't actually read that book of hers that you hate or she mentions Robin Hood in until last year. I do however remember what she said about him well. It is however interesting you hate her so. She nails you guys hard, so I guess the rapist you have to hate when you get raped. Afterall, it only makes sense.
Of course you do not care what the results would have been. To someone like you the results never ever matter. It is all about ideology, theory, the abstract position, and the "correct means" of everything. As if there is such a thing in the real world.
I don't know man, but curing a disease usually involves curing the disease. Maybe I'm just naive like that.
So, is most taxation theft to you?
In principle? Yeah. In practice? no. For this, all you have to ask yourself is does it represent the people that pay into it? Well, does it? No, the idea they might get representation at some point and time is not the same thing. That isn't even touching that its completely unjustified.
You know each person, and party, and clique favors certain taxes and disfavors others. For instance, there is a libertarian on the radio who prettymuch wants most federal taxes repealed. But one day a listener called in and agreed with that sentiment and listed departments and services he would like discontinued. He mentioned the National Park Service, and the libertarian host said 'But I like the national parks.
Why would he agree with national parks? They're a great idea, sure, but its not justified for the government to do. Kinda interesting if that is true. Then again, I have no idea who you are talking about.
Anyway, I'm a capitalist, but I don't have a problem with the unemployment insurance setup. The general working public is not smart enough, or maybe not industrious enough to prepare for years of joblessness, or even for a few months of it. That's just the way it is. That's the reality, regardless of your ideals. But you honestly say that you don't care, and there's no arguing that. We just disagree.
I don't see how them not being prepared for the reality of life should act like an excuse for you to say I'm not in line with the reality of life.