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Board Politics & Society
Re: Why are people scared of taxes?
by
Jimmy Chang(y)
on 01/11/2012, 15:49:51 UTC

I haven't been to school for a number of years, thanks for being condescending though.

My apologies. Blind belief in the righteousness of government is often, but not always, a sign of those who have not yet met the real world.


You don't want to go to court? The police come and find me and take me, or your on the run. I'm not from America so the threat of guns is not really an issue, still, I don't like jail.

Are you sure? You might be surprised. I don't want to make any assumptions on your location. FWIW, I'm not from America either, I just choose to live here.

You should try to think more globally, the world isn't just America.

I do. My own home country has shot one person (to death) for carrying a table leg and another (well beyond "to death") for wearing a bulky jacket and having darkish skin in recent memory.

Edit: Though let's forget the guns for a second. The issue is the initiation of force, not the method used to do so.


You claim taxes are wrong, because its stealing.

Not stealing, robbery. Though tricks like "PAYE" are perhaps more akin to stealing.


I claim your talking horse shit and the only reason you are bothering to spout it is because your greedy, you want more than you have. If you weren't, you'd see the potential benefit of a tax system which helps those who need it.

I would settle for a tax system that helped those who needed it. I will still argue about the right and wrong of using force to part people from their earned wealth though.

Richy let me assure you that I have no faith in any governments, at all. The point I have been trying to make is that tax, itself, CAN be a good thing. Im not saying today, that the system we have is good, im saying the complete opposite, its utterly useless but that does not mean that tax is useless.

As for forcing people, sure i'm all for personal freedoms but sometimes people need a nudge in the right direction and if you have a taxation system which operated fairly and spent the money wisely, I personally am ok with it.