On 2/7/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Denny wrote: > > The attitude is what bugs me. This isn't a closed system, like > > J-man pointed out. > > Let's look at Iraq. > -------------------------- > Who's dying over there? Not me nor anyone in my family. Nor am I > asked to sacrifice anything. Yet Iraq has been tied to my very > security. Shouldn't I be contributing somehow?
Um, hate to break it to ya, but you are. And our kids will. Thru $$$ Do you know how much the military death benefit used to be? $12,000! > What a crock of shit! > > The point is that if Iraq is important enough to fight in, then we > should all be fighting somehow. If it's not important enough then > nobody should fight. Well, we're fighting "terror", Gruss! We do that by being Americans! Woot! Taxes. > ------------- > Same concept. Don't punish 1% of the population by making them pay > for 100% of the people. And, yes, that's exactly what Edwards > suggestion does. > > If he says part of the money comes from X, fine, but then it all > should come from X or the balance should be applied to everyone. I don't think this works, fractions wize. I can't think of a good example, but anyways-- Are you proposing the same argument Jim was about closed/open source? Should you pay for, say, shit, I can't think of anything good, but say, cervical cancer, perhaps. Even men!?!? That's crazy. Make the chicks pay their taxes, dudes ours, whatnot. Bah. Sorry for the poor attempt at explaining whatever it is I mean. Summary > ------------------- > If we all benefit from a government policy we should all pay. Well, I can't explain it good I don't think. "All" is such a -- word. Eh. =] :D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
