[doc1019]

I already “contribute” enough in taxes to cover my share.

Are you former military?

[Balding_Eagle]

I’m not former military, are you?

I also contribute enough to cover my fair share, as do the good people of SC.

Why should they be forced, essentially at the point of a gun, to pay the tax for others?

[Hulka]

I've paid more than my share of taxes with frequent moves to places not so nice, fighting in two wars, being separated from my family for months and years at a time, never able to build equity in a home, getting no federal relocation assistance when trying to sell a home when moving, wife never in one palce long enough to really get established in a career, son never in one place long enough to settle in a high school, not able to adopt because we PCS’d before we moved up the waiting list, and so on.

Why did we (I) stay? It was a calling, a sense of being part of something greater than myself, to be proud of what I was doing in defense of this great nation.

So, when I retired we had a few places to choose from and we elected to come home to Texas, tax free Texas. If there was an income tax on our retirement we would have moved elsewhere.