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I agree with Ari Fleischer.

Nothing is “free” in a capitalistic system.

Everyone should pay something, because they are utilizing the government's services. I don't care if it's $.01 or $1.

3 posted on 04/12/2009 9:25:51 PM PDT by GOP_Lady

5 posted on 04/12/2009 9:33:44 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)

I agree. I want roads and public schools and I don’t want to organize building and running them. So, I’m willing to pay the government to do that for me.

I don’t want to pay for my perfectly able landlady who was laid off and got 6 months of unemployment. She then got that 6 months extended to 1 year “because of the bad economy”. The obvious problem is not that we don’t tax enough, but that we allow the government to spend and waste on so many things that are really disservices to the country.

35 posted on 04/12/2009 10:54:28 PM PDT by Skenderbej

By and large, government is a economically destroying, moral and ethical corrosive, and liberty consuming enterprise.

So, it is destructive and enabling of evil to pay taxes.

If there is a general need, then let it be brought to the citizens and they will to the level of goodness and patriotism rise to the occasion. If not, that is because the people are no longer good, and thus who they vote for will no longer be good, or they are good and the cause is not worthy.

54 posted on 04/13/2009 5:07:49 AM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)

Everyone should pay something, because they are utilizing the government's services.

Yes, but at what point does this moral obligation cease?

If your tax money was being used perpetrate the most heinous offenses on fellow citizens, should you still be obliged to pay anything?

If your tax money was being used to line the pockets of academia's scholars to study arcane and tenuous subjects, do you feel you should be coerced with deadly force to continue to give the fruits of your skill or intellect?

If your forced contribution provides support to fellow citizen in perpetuation of lifestyles harmful to themselves and the whole of our society, what is your moral imperative?

If your tax money is used to fund an ocean of excess in a multitude of ways do you have an obligation to continue your "voluntary" contribution?

I am not Patrick Henry with flaming red hair and oaths to Heaven, but I resent how our so called Free Capitalist System has been perverted by the Sixteenth Amendment and the IRS.

71 posted on 04/13/2009 7:27:04 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)

Nothing is “free” in a socialist system either... somewhere, someone pays.

98 posted on 04/14/2009 5:11:31 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)

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