Edgar,
I think you are right in both sentences.
But, I now understand that some folks believe that taxation in itself is an
evil, a "taking" -- even a "stealing", I have read -- even though some such
folks may have heard of the "social contract", and the coming together of
people to govern themselves, as in democracy, and concomitant empowerment of a
Legislature by the people to collect revenues in order to fund the workings of
said government.
I am for rooting out waste, duplication, triplication, corruption, and
unfairness.
However, we have to define all those things, eh?, and THAT is the rub. As we
see now in USA. Everything means different things to different people,
different interests. ;-)
But, I still support and subscribe to your two sentences.
Now, when do you start serving them? ;-)
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> RAF,
>
> I don't think the problem is taxes per se. It is necessary to have some
> amount of government and it must be therefore funded by taxes.
>
> The real problem is the enormous amount of government waste and corruption
> which results in enormously bloated and unnecessary taxes.
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