(July 1, 2013 at 11:00 am)Koolay Wrote: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.The government does have permission. It's called "voting".
Now it does happen that not everyone will agree with the spending priorities of the government. This is like in the condo association I used to belong to where one continuously disgruntled member seemed to forever disagree with the majority on how money was spent. He stopped paying his maintenance and we took legal action. Sorry, you don't get to do that. If you don't like how the condo association spends its money, move or convince more people of your position.
Personally, I'd love for government to be run a-la-carte somehow. I don't want to pay the 2 trillion dollar war in Iraq and the botched war in Afghanistan. I don't want to pay for W Bush's trillion dollar giveaway to big pharma or all the money that got funneled into sweet no-bid contracts to Halliburton. I'd like to not have to pay for the largest incarceration per capita worldwide because of this asinine "War on Drugs". And the banks that crashed our economy should be the ones to pay for the mess, not the taxpayers. And I think we can cut our bloated military budget in half, now that the Cold War is over, and we'll still be spending more than the next four nations combined. And I don't want to subsidize the wealth of the top 1% in this country by putting their share of running the government on our future tab that you're so worried about.
It would be great if we could impose a "Dumb Ass Tax" on everyone who voted for W Bush in 2004 to pay for the record deficits he created. By 2004, it was clear he'd lied us into a costly war in Iraq and those that still voted for him should pay for it. However, life doesn't work that way and government can't be a buffet table where we get to pick and choose what we individually want.
I'm not accusing you of being a member of the GOP but if you're worried about the debt, let's take a hard look at conservative pet projects and how costly they are.
And if you don't like paying taxes, go live in the wild. Let me know how that works for you.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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