I am one of the knights who say....TEA !
Taxed Enough Already!
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I am one of the knights who say... NYFN!
No You're Fucking Not! |
Deadman, how much are you taxed?
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I'm not giving you my shrubbery. Never!
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By the way, take a breath once in a while ... you're depriving your brain of oxygen.
Now get a grip. We're going to need more taxes. Maybe you try to shift it to the rich ... I don't know. But 51% of the people in this country pay no Federal Income Tax now. And we don't have enough revenue for what we're spending. So we'll need more revenue. And we'll have to ask our government to do less. And we'll have to ask the government to cut back on existing spending. Or we're all headed the way Greece is now. |
I like how an idea of "no taxation without representation" went to "I just don't want to pay taxes especially if a black man is in office." Sure its pretty much the health care act that motivates the tea baggers, but where were they when Bush announced their tax dollars were going to go to the war effort in Iraq?
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Or where where they in 2003 when President Bush was herding the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (the largest expansion of Medicare since its creation, at the time) through Congress?
As of February 2009, the projected net cost of the program over the 2006 to 2015 period was $549.2 billion. - (WIKIPEDIA) - And by many conservative sources I respect, that estimate is low. So where was this outrage then? Where were they when Congress and the Bush administration rolled back financial regulation to the point where the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacles were possible and where the seemingly industry wide irresponsibility in the finance industry was allowed that caused tens of thousands of mortgage foreclosures and retirement fund collapses to rock our country's financial bedrock? By the way, Deadman, when is the last time you contacted someone in Congress? The Senate is currently debating and will soon vote on Wall Street reform. http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm I contacted my Senators today to urge them to vote to let states play a role in consumer financial protection and not to let the big banks avoid state rules and enforcement. Seemed like a much more constructive thing to do than going on about tea. |
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But it's not about "I don't want to pay taxes at all." It's about "I don't want to pay taxes for something I don't believe in." |
You know, it's shit like this, especially the muddy road of taxation, that makes me kind of wish that we all lived in caves again. There would be no taxes, no governments doing terrible atrocities, like providing healthcare for the people it promised to take care of, and everybody would just be responsible for their own shit.
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Your typical tea bag gathering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk Your typical market fundamentalist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw1SjfDbppo :p |
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We may have too much government. The best answer isn't no government. Unless that was a sardonic, dryly worded joke. In which case, well played. |
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I've been on the "cave" end of things, in a way. It really isn't that great. Also, what Ophie said. |
C'mon people, socialized medicine is needed.
Very simply, the market cannot provide healthcare for everyone due to its expensive nature. The ramifications of this are staggering. Healthcare under a socialized system does the best it can to provide for everyone. Of course, given the expensive nature of the industry, rationing will most likely occur. But who cares ? |
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I repeat, I am not interested in explaining myself to people on the internet. |
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Also, the bailout hasn't cost taxpayers nearly as much as everyone seems to think. A lot of the loans are being paid back on or ahead of schedule, and the government is making some interest on those loans. I agree that there should have been a system in place to prevent the situation from occurring but the problems are due to the instability of our finance system, not high taxes. |
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Wooo! Communism it basically saying, "I think normal people are too incompetent to take care of themselves!"
Well, I think, that's what it means. It's hard typing today. Luckily the hole in my denim hat has a zipper. |
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Greatest. Post. Ever. |
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I'm genuinely curious as to whether you're this big an ass in real life. |
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