From: DagT
Den 31. mai 2010 kl. 23.28 skrev John Sessoms:
I got no kids myself, and ain't too thrilled with how much I have
to pay in taxes to support schools and other stuff the government
does ...
Maybe you should think about it this way: Someone has to pay for your
pension.
Did you think the government or insurance companies put your money in
a jar? I think they are betting that the next generation will pay. If
the next generation are too few or doesn?t have the money, you don?t
get any. In poor countries they see their children as investments in
the future, but in many ways they are the same in our part of the
world.
I think you may have missed my point.
I agree that children are the future. And education is the least costly
way to achieving a desirable outcome; cheaper than letting them grow up
savages and ending up warehoused in prison somewhere.
I understand WHY I have to pay my share of taxes to accomplish something
for the greater good of society as a whole even if it doesn't benefit me
personally.
But I don't have to enjoy paying taxes.
I only have to pay them. I don't have to like it.
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