Quote:what else do you call someone who wants to rob wealthy people under the guise of them paying their "fair share" to give to other people?

 

Quote:I don't like taxes, but they are a necessary evil and a scarce-resource society. It is basically the rent you pay for living within the United States. I don't mind paying taxes because I live within the US. However, I do mind paying taxes that go beyond protection and infrastructure. I don't believe I should be paying taxes, especially high taxes, because someone wants "free" college, "free" healthcare, or "free" housing.

My concern with college education is that a bachelor's degree is already worth roughly what a high school degree was worth fifty years ago. If things continue on in this fashion, a bachelor's degree is going to be worth its weight in toilet paper--and I'm not even talking about nice toilet paper, I'm talking about the sandpaper they give you in Motel 6. Instead of trying to funnel every American kid through a four-year school that may or may not result in them being a $120k tax sink that waits tables for a living, encourage more kids to go to trade schools and two-year programs that might not qualify them to run a company, but it will qualify them to make a very good living over the long term in a blue-collar field that's got all of its baby boomers retiring, and very few Gen-X'ers or millennials interested in replacing them.

 

Quote:Cool.  Do we get badges?  Or maybe some kind of evil nickname.  I call "The Valeyard!"

Ok, that's cool and all, and I'm happy for you, but you do remember that Moffat basically retconned the Valeyard out of existence, right?

 

Quote:who is Sanders to tell anyone that they have enough?

If you're sitting on a billion dollars while a guy two miles away is sitting on his cardboard box, the morally right thing to do is to help the guy with a cardboard box out. Don't set him up for life, but giving him help to get back on his feet--assuming his troubles are not his own doing--is, imo, morally right.

 

It shouldn't be a legal requirement, though, and that's an area where Sanders and I disagree strongly. I still want to see this country on a straight consumption tax, but good luck finding a liberal politician to support that policy. The propaganda pipeline has pumped out the story that a consumption tax would be an unfair burden on the poor, minorities, whatever, even though in reality it's a fair, unbiased tax for everyone.

 

Quote:I only have a problem with the income tax. The State doesn't have a right to my income before it ever reaches my hands. Tax consumption all you want, tax property, tax however you want but when you take it before I see it, you've eliminated my choice and now are using the monopoly of force the state holds.

 

ALL income taxes in ALL forms constitute theft and any politician compliant with any form of income tax is a thief. 

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