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“I am sure if asked all of them would prefer to pay taxes to their current travails. “

You would be wrong. It is pretty clear, regardless of sentimentality, most who stop paying will fight to continue not to pay — it is one part human nature and one part the way the system is set up — FedGov sets up snares to keep people (no matter how well intentioned) from biting the bullet.

And I don’t mean this personally, but your appeal to sentimentality, which I see all of the time, reveals an attitude of entitlement (and its corollary = at the expense of others).

Unfortunately, the only way to trump the anger of righteous indignation (from telling the truth, in this case), is to actually threaten taking away some of the sweet bennies you receive, PAID FOR BY OTHERS.

Thank you for your service.

REALLY! I am appalled by your disparaging assumptions about our wounded warriors. We have a 10% rule in the military. You will spend most of your time dealing with the 10% who always create the problems, we had 10% who gamed the disability system for entitlements, but that left 90% who would have given anything to get their former life back. You are clueless on this matter.

The Federal government is required to maintain a standing military. Military retirement was a contractual agreement between myself and the United States Government. I had to perform certain tasks, meet certain requirements and serve for a minimum of 20 years to receive a retirement. In return the government agreed to compensate me at a rate commensurate with the years served and my final pay.

You are right my bennies are paid for by your taxes, as was my military paycheck for nearly 33 years, by the way, you are also paying for local, state and federal law enforcement, firefighters and even the guy working in the sewer. You know what, their sweet bennies are paid for by others as well. Some have a sweeter retirement plans than I do. Also paid for by others.

Point remains the same, saying 47% pay no taxes is misleading. You have between 20% and 30% of the population acting as free riders. Free riders do not and have not been an asset to the society, they give nothing back in return for their entitlement. They certainly pay no taxes. Another 12% are so severely disabled as to be incapable of caring for themselves and as such we as a nation choose to care for them vice euthanizing them.