(March 14, 2013 at 9:53 pm)jstrodel Wrote: I gave plenty of examples. But a counterpoint to that example, is that 80% of the public is Christian, and they pay for the public education system, which is secular. They are forced to pay, they do not have a choice. If they want to send their kids to a private school, they still have to pay the same amount of taxes.
So you have one person that wants to consider intelligent design in schools and another person that wants to tax people at very high rates to create a secular culture and force people to accept the secular nationalistic ideology of the school system.
For a more extreme example, look at the school system in the 1/5th of the world that is Communist.
You seem to be laboring under the delusion that the government provides its services in exchange for taxes.
"According to Black's Law Dictionary, a tax is a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government [...] a payment exacted by legislative authority." It "is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority" and is "any contribution imposed by government [...] whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name.""
