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I wrote to another Freeper: How can you say federal employees (I'm one) shouldn't be allowed to vote? I pay as much federal tax as you, more or less depending on salary.

You responded: Nonsense. You don't pay any taxes at all. The gov't plays a shell game wherein it gives you money and then takes some back. It still remains true that that all of this money was originally stolen from people in the productive economy.

Who the hell are you to tell me I don't pay taxes. My salary is already lower compared to similar occupations outside the government, and then the gov't takes out the exact same portion it does from your pay check. Add in state tax, Social Security (which I'll never see since I don't get SS based on federal service), and FICA, and there you have it: I pay probably more in tax than you. And, from the stupidity of your post, its a big assumption on my part to consider you to even be intelligent enough to be employable.

You then went on with this tripe: I don't allow my servants to decide how to run my house - for obvious reasons. If you want to decide what happens, get yourself a real job instead of pretending that that you "serve" the public you extort a salary from.

Considering that you don't know what I do for a living, aside from working from the federal government, that is an asinine statement. There are many thousands of feds that work in demanding, ultra-sensitive fields that you will never comprehend. Who won the Cold War? The feds that you bash, designing superior technology, doing field work in anonymity around the world knowing that cretins like you are bashing them out of ignorance, manning field offices around the world doing jobs you don't have the intelligence to even comprehend.

I cannot grasp the loathing of "freedom lovers" that assume the guilt of a civil servant. Do the Bill of Rights crowd deny it to those charged with protecting it?

Libertarians think that government is bad. The contrary assumption is that the individual is good.

Lol!

(or, is it, could it be -- the world isn't just black and white...?}

Who the hell are you to tell me I don't pay taxes.

Because you don't. Every cent you take home was taken from other people at the point of a gun. And you know it. Stop playing your shell game with me, Buster.

As for your insults about my intelligence, someone who fails to understand this obvious fact clearly has none. So go play in your little bureaucratic warren. You'd obviously never make it in the real world.