Income tax is slavery and I don't really care what other countries do. They LIKE slavery, I guess.
Try watching this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBoAQw7bgo
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what if big government is INCAPABLE of working? The countries you name are in worse economic shape even than we are. What if the very practice of bringing money into a centralized location draws special interest bottom feeders to skim it off? What if the bigger the country/larger the area governed, the fewer controls and less accountability? Those principles are why our country was built on a LIMITED federal government, and I am all for it.
So my answer might be BECAUSE we are Americans.
Answered By: DAR - 1/25/2009 |
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They think they are entitled to have all of the protections of the Government without paying the associated costs of running the country.
In short, they are insane.
Answered By: Shoeless Joe - 1/25/2009 |
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The unfortunate side of all of this is that politicians become the ones to make all of the decisions about your life. Many people under a socialized health care plan, for instance, are forced to wait for weeks or months to get medical attention that they often times need immediately.
The point is that politicians shouldn't be making these kinds of decisions where they have zero experience or expertise.
Answered By: Wanderer - 1/25/2009 |
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Because people like money. It doesn't matter how selfish or illogical it is to expect the government to do an awesome job with no money, it's just the truth of human nature. Money equal power, and humans like power.
Answered By: livefreeordie - 1/25/2009 |
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Because we pay for people who are
1. here illegally
2. are NOT paying taxes
Answered By: Samurai - 1/25/2009 |
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They would rather have the money than a better society. Thing is that they don't really have the money, and they don't have the better society either. They have to spend so much on services, like health care, that after all is said and done, they would be way ahead by paying a few more percentage points on taxes.
Answered By: Lamplighter - 1/25/2009 |
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Taxes slow the economy down. And decreasing taxes actually increases the amount of money the goverment collects. There are decades of charts that prove that is true.
Also, you can't compare America to other countries. America depends on innovations, and those innovations keep other countries' economies alive.
For example, the U.S. invented cellphones, but Finland's Nokia keeps Finland's economy alive.
Answered By: a bush family member - 1/25/2009 |
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Nice rant.
Maybe because TAXES are why we started our own country over 200 years ago to begin with?
Answered By: Drew Bloodsd - 1/25/2009 |
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Im not opposed to taxes. Im opposed to deadbeats not paying their fair share. The rich pay the majority already.
Answered By: Jonny B - 1/25/2009 |
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I see another that knows nothing about our History.
Answered By: preacherswife - 1/25/2009 |
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Your arguments are flawed and full of opinions. I know lots of people in Europe who are not happy about their socialized governments. They tell me about bribes to doctors just to get care, waiting in line for hours for gas and groceries, extraneous taxes at the local level, etc.
So socialized medicine would make you happy? Not me. I have a great health plan through my employer, and choose the health care provider that best suits my needs. I don't want the government telling me when I can go to the doctor and who that provider will be . . .then waiting in line for hours for care.
Cost of pharmaceuticals would not plummet - currently we - Americans - are subsidizing research for the world. If everyone in the world was on a socialized plan, there would be less research, less innovation, and the cost would be higher for some than it is today.
If people don't feel the government is working they need to get involved. The government in the US is for the people and of the people. YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT. Tell the bureaucrats what you want done, if they don't do it, vote them out.
One more thing - I've never seen anywhere that it's our government's responsibility to provide - that's some liberal garbage if I ever read it.
Answered By: Nowanna Obama - 1/25/2009 |
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People who support socialism just do it so they can have what everyone else has without having to do anything for it. Republicans know they should have what they earned and those who fail at life should have a poorer quality life.
Answered By: <3 - 1/25/2009 |
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Because people don't like their hard earned money being handed over to multi-generation welfare bums who could but would not get a job and to s***s who have 6 children from 6 different fathers and abuse the system to feed their kids etc. When the money is spent well, people don't mind paying taxes.
Answered By: Momsey - 1/25/2009 |
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Is that why Europe is doing so well in this crisis?
Ah, wait, they aren't.
As a comparison, the US has the sniffles right now and the rest of the world has the flu. You believe that it's the government's responsibility to provide for the people. It isn't. The government's responsibility is to ensure the safety of its citizens.
Answered By: RJ ✡ - 1/25/2009 |
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Where I most fervently disagree with you is when you say government's job is to provide and protect.
In our system We The People are the providers and the protectors. The way it works is we provide and protect ourselves, our neighborhoods, our communities, our states, our nation and our planet, in that order.
While our system should create an environment in which every human has an opportunity to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the only way that the system can flourish is through personal responsibility and accountability.
Answered By: smartybeardo - 1/25/2009 |
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Everyone would like to keep more of their money. The Republicans, as far as I can tell can't stand that their tax money is spent on programs they do not agree with. They have no problem with supporting wars or helping other countries, but cringe at the thought of their money going toward welfare for their own country. Wouldn't we all like to pick and choose? I sure would.
Answered By: grump56 - 1/25/2009 |
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"Because people in Europe and other modernized countries actually see their taxes at work."
So do I. I see my taxes going at work being spent on useless things, scams, given away to people who shouldnt have it.
"infrastructure that is being constantly improved and modernized (the under-taking of that construction here would lead to millions of jobs across the nation as UNION laborers went to work building roads, highways, rails and more) "
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_big_dig.html
Answered By: bmovies60 - 1/25/2009 |
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All of their moralistic rhetoric and talk of voodoo/pseudo-supply-side/magical economics is merely a veneer for their greed (not necessarily a bad thing, unless it leads people/companies to profit at the expense of others). The hard right views the accumulation of wealth for its own sake as second-highest moral pursuit. The first is state coercion (i.e., torture) for the sake of state coercion. It's as if they've just read 1984 and take away from it the lesson that The Party represents righteousness.
Answered By: TylerFromNE - 1/25/2009 |
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Ok, I have to admit that I didn't read that entire rant but the reason why Republicans tend to not like taxes is because taxes mean more government control. I worked for that money. The government should not then be able to take the money that I put my time and labor into and put it towards something irresponsible or something that I don't morally agree with, etc. etc. etc.
Those countries that are "industrialized and modern" but have high taxes and socialized governments are that way politically because they have not really moved their governments forward. The US broke away from those old ideals a long time ago to form a more progressive type of government. Those socialist countries are not as perfect as some people try to play off and are, in many respects, worse off than our own government.
The idea that Republicans who are against higher taxes are therefore against poor people or helping out the needy is just a bunch of bunk. Study after study after study has shown that those with more traditional values, conservatives, the people that tend to make up the Republican base are the ones responsible for giving the most in charitable contributions and doing the most volunteer work. The idea that people cannot be trusted to handle their own money is more ridiculous than believing that the government shouldn't be trusted to handle our money.
Answered By: greenjellybean - 1/25/2009 |
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Well if you like it so much...
Go live there...
First you have no idea of what you speak...
Do you know what "FREEDOM" means...
The USA is not a Socialist/Communist Country...
One serous error in your thinking is...
The Government is not supposed to
be supplying you with anything...
I know as a Socialist you find that hard to understand.
Also understand that you are from the "Gimme, Gimme.
Generation"...
To quote one of our Founding Fathers and
a Former President "Thomas Jefferson"
"The Democracy will cease to exist when you
take from those who are willing to work and
"Give to those Who Would Not"...
Answered By: marine5 - 1/25/2009 |
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