[CWRWinger]

Please tell me how I can buy my way out of paying income tax, social security, etc. and still make a regular income, and be arrested and have a gun put to my head. You and I both know we can't with this federal government. Yet I look into the istory of this country, and there was a time, a long time, citizens were not in bondage to this government.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Please tell me how I can buy my way out of paying income tax, social security, etc. and still make a regular income, and be arrested and have a gun put to my head. You and I both know we can't with this federal government. Yet I look into the istory of this country, and there was a time, a long time, citizens were not in bondage to this government.

Yeah-- that was a long time ago. Can't you see that makes a BIG difference?

I mean, it might be nice to live like Jeremiah Johnson, but now you have these little Al Qeada buggers who want to cut your throat -- and they know where you live.

Walt

[andy_card]

Yet I look into the istory of this country, and there was a time, a long time, citizens were not in bondage to this government.

1. Nobody is in bondage to the Government. The Government provides us with services, some of them good, many of which are bad. We pay taxes, for example, so that our military can keep invading armies from pillaging our land, raping our women, and killing our children. If you don't like it, you can leave. But we will always need taxation if we want to live and prosper.

2. Taxation has always existed, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. At no point has this country, or any country, not taxed its own people, either directly or indirectly.

3. I don't like to pay taxes. I think taxes are much too high. But even assuming the socialists get their way and we wind up with 90% taxation, no rational person would trade places, even for a moment, with a slave. You clearly have no inkling of what true oppression means.