Interstate highways are important to commerce and the economic well being of this country. I am against tax dollars being spent on pork barrell and ineptly mananged federal programs and over inflated defense budgets. I have nothing against state taxes because those funds go directly to the support of the state I live in. They go to the roads, infastructure, etc... of the state I reside in. That doesn't mean that my state's government doesn't need to trim a lot of fat. I don't believe, I will state it again since you seemed to miss it the first time I stated it, in the manditory taxation of the people. I support the Fair Tax proposal which is a voluntary tax. New Jersey, the state I live in, receives $.45 for every $1.00 in federal taxes we pay. 50% of my tax dollars go to benefit another state. Meanwhile this very state has dire needs that oit can not meet because of lack of funds.
That's all fine and dandy but by not paying federal taxes you're not supporting the programs you like. You are more concerned about your money not being wasted than helping those who need help. It's a me first attitude. It's sure not one I respect or want to see emulated by the masses.
“One good thing about music,
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
That's all fine and dandy but by not paying federal taxes you're not supporting the programs you like. You are more concerned about your money not being wasted than helping those who need help. It's a me first attitude. It's sure not one I respect or want to see emulated by the masses.
That's fine I really don't need your respect or approval. You know little about me and how much I care about my fellow man. The money that the federal government takes from me can be put to better use by providing it to organizations who would do a better job with less money for my fellow man. So you can keep handing you money over to the government while they piss it away as they hold your hand from craddle to grave. I prefer to leave government out of my life and provide for the less fortunate by other means where I know the money is going to them and not some regime half way around the world to safe guard some corporations interest.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
I couldn't figure out if they were deliberately fear-mongering in order to keep the masses in line, or if they were saying the fear-mongering stuff because they believed it. *quivers again* Did I mention how scared I was/am?? Guiliani, I've paid attention to him for awhile through speeches and stuff, and imo he's deliberately fear mongering, in order to "lead".
I really think Guiliani is a fascist. Not a Nazi, mind you, or some brutal eugenist, but a textbook fascist. Yeah, he gives me the willies.
Ed Brown says he is armed and has promised a Waco like ending, saying he will not be taken alive.
This story reminded me of a Steely Dan song......oh, and ffg.
Don't Take Me Alive
Agents of the law
Luckless pedestrian
I know you're out there
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
Saying all is forgiven
Mad Dog surrender
How can I answer
A man of my mind can do anything
I'm a bookkeeper's son
I don't want to shoot no one
Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Got a case of dynamite
I could hold out here all night
Yes I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my inside
The mechanized hum of another world
Where no sun is shining
No red light flashing
Here in this darkness
I know what I've done
I know all at once who I am
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
~Albert Einstein
In America at least, paying taxes is unconstitutional. Yet we blindly follow along with it every day. Your 1040 forms clearly state that you are "volunteering" these funds. Study the IR Code book and decide for yourself. Over the years there have been various individuals and groups who have challenged these "laws". Each has been "dismissed" but never "disproven". Something to think about.
"When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
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when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
That's fine I really don't need your respect or approval. You know little about me and how much I care about my fellow man. The money that the federal government takes from me can be put to better use by providing it to organizations who would do a better job with less money for my fellow man. So you can keep handing you money over to the government while they piss it away as they hold your hand from craddle to grave. I prefer to leave government out of my life and provide for the less fortunate by other means where I know the money is going to them and not some regime half way around the world to safe guard some corporations interest.
This story reminded me of a Steely Dan song......oh, and ffg.
Don't Take Me Alive
Agents of the law
Luckless pedestrian
I know you're out there
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
Saying all is forgiven
Mad Dog surrender
How can I answer
A man of my mind can do anything
I'm a bookkeeper's son
I don't want to shoot no one
Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Got a case of dynamite
I could hold out here all night
Yes I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my inside
The mechanized hum of another world
Where no sun is shining
No red light flashing
Here in this darkness
I know what I've done
I know all at once who I am
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
~Albert Einstein
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
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