I always heard death and taxes were two of the inevitably disappointing parts of life. I am pretty sure democracy arose as a way to make the inevitable taxes be chosen and spent in a somewhat more 'consent of the governed' sort of way, not that democracy invented taxation.
Taxation without representation being the ill we oppose - taxes, like death, are just part of life. On Dec 11, 2012 9:53 AM, "R A Fonda" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/11/2012 8:51 AM, Edgar Owen wrote: > > Any generosity on the part of the government > > > The main problem with government "generosity" is that the government > doesn't HAVE anything to give that it did not TAKE from someone. Now some > user fees, and resource extraction taxes, etc... are more or less > 'theft-free' but they don't come close to covering the costs of our bloated > US government. Worse, the political elites have made such an awful mess of > things that huge numbers of people are impoverished and unemployed and NEED > assistance. Worse still, this leads a majority of the electorate to vote > for a government that promises to fill their rice bowl. > > I fear there is no solution except for this dystopia to collapse and the > unsustainable population to crash. > > RAF > > >
