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.
your post contains a silly statement that’s at the bottom of a silly slippery slope. Here is what you said in post 43:
Suppose you get your way, and nobody pays any federal tax.
Nobody but you ever said anything about nobody paying taxes. That was 100% YOUR argument, you put it forth based entirely on whole cloth. You went straight from “pay as little as possible” (the post you replied to) to “nobody pays any” (your EXACT quote). And that’s a MASSIVE, and silly, jump.
Now as for the rest of your post, looks like a lot of “blah, blah, blah” and insults, thus proving you know the facts don’t support you.
You said something silly, it was a completely logicless slippery slope argument, and no amount of “blah, blah, blah” on your part is going to make it not silly. Man up and admit it or chicken out and run away, your choice, don’t care, look at all your insults to me and understand they apply to you.