[oh8eleven]

It would be instructive if people were paid in full and then wrote a check each month to Uncle Sam.

Rush has brought this up repeatedly. If every American had to sit down once a month and write checks to the tax collectors for:

• Federal taxes
• State taxes
• County taxes
• Town taxes
• School taxes
• et al

...there would be so many angry Americans we'd have the American Revolution Pt II.

[radiohead]

You are absolutely correct. I had my own law office for a few years and quickly turned from a Dim to a conservative. There is nothing like sweating out how you are going to pay the office rent, your license, etc. etc as well as your home expenses while you see women on welfare cruising up and down the street shopping w/their kids on your money.

Call me a terrible person for making this generality, but this is a generality about which I have intimate knowledge. (some were my clients, some were people i saw in the neighborhood)

I got really tired, really fast, of working all the time so that others could hang out on my dime.

I tell my friends who think I'm weird for being conservative, that they should all go into business for themselves for a year. Once they see what they are really paying and start looking at all the government programs from welfare to farm subsidies, they will never be fans of the nanny state again.