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To: TopQuark

What makes it silly is that you make the completely illogical jump from paying the government as little as legally possible to the government getting no money at all and having to shut down the military. That’s not a matter of public goods, that’s a matter of you flying so far down the slippery slope as to no longer even being on the same mountain. What makes your argument even sillier is that he tax in question is a STATE tax and not one penny from it goes to the military.

Nobody is talking about markets, you are, once again, making a silly argument.

Nobody is talking about weakening or disappearing America’s defense. We’re simply talking about not over paying an already voracious federal government.

They the government that’s who. Duly appointed representatives of the people.

Our government has lots and lots of ways to get money besides direct taxation of the people. Tariffs, fees, tons of cash without having to directly hassle my wallet.

no you are wrong, that is EXACTLY the issue. It is the moral duty of EVERY single person to not give the government any excess money. That is the heart of fiscal conservatism, that is the heart of keeping the government in check. Paying less taxes, within the law, is patriotic because it maintains the correct balance America was founded on, that the government works for us, not the other way around.


73 posted on 03/08/2011 11:00:01 AM PST by discostu (this is definitely not my confused face)
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To: discostu
Your posts have made two things very clear: (i) you find what I said to be very silly and (ii) make no attempt at disciplined thinking:

What makes it silly is that you make the completely illogical jump from paying the government as little as legally possible to the government getting no money at all

Please read for details an earlier reply where this mistake is addressed. In sum: my contains a specialization, not an implication. Thus, there is no "jump," whether justifiable or not.

That’s not a matter of public goods,

If you make a claim, then you should demonstrate how it is unrelated to public goods. That would be contrary to my claim and prove me incorrect.

Since you clearly cannot, you substitute it with blah-blah-blah in the form of the famous but ambiguous slippery slope:

that’s a matter of you flying so far down the slippery slope as to no longer even being on the same mountain.

Again, where is the demonstration of any relationship between the "slippery slope" and anything I said? Nowhere, of course, just blah, blah, blah....

" What makes your argument even sillier is that he tax in question is a STATE tax and not one penny from it goes to the military."

You just can't think clearly, can you? The poster made a statement of principle: inspired perhaps by the article, he went beyond the article. He claimed that, as a matter of principle, paying less tax is patriotic. Since this was not qualified, it applies to all cases of government, state as well as federal. I was not responding to the article --- hence it matters not whether the article speaks of a state of federal tax --- but to that poster's annunciation of a general principle he invented. If you are unable to stay on topic, that's fine; but you are faulting others for doing so.

Unable to saying a single sentence without planting your feet into your mouth, you should not be so hasty to characterize something you see as silly: judging from the forgoing, things appear silly to you because you are thoroughly confused.

You don't have to take my advise, of course. Since you are now thoroughly convinced that whatever I say is silly, I shall not try to argue any further.

Have a good day.

75 posted on 03/08/2011 11:21:51 AM PST by TopQuark
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