Tag: Taxes
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Dear RW-ers: No, Freedom Is NOT Free; It Comes With Responsibilities
Listening to most RW-ers defend their ideals is starting to sound like a ten year old bully defending himself. “You’re not the boss of me” is what “freedom” sounds like in his ears. That might work as freedom if you live alone on an island. Put one other person there and “you’re not the boss…
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WE Alone Can Fix It
The Big Lie that helped bring us the Age Of Trump flows from that wellspring of bullshit — Libertarianism. “I alone can fix it” is laughably absurd. But, as much as some of us roared the first time Donald Trump spewed those words, some in the crowd — their ears perked up. They, too, think…
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Hey, America — Here’s A Radical Idea: Let’s Tax The Ignorant
I hope like hell this isn’t a revelation: ignorance is blissful only for the ignorant. Ignorance is expensive as hell for everyone else. Ignorance is caused by lack of information. Willful ignorance is a refusal to accept information that would cure the ignorance. Stupidity, on the other hand, is just that — stupidity. It’s deep-seated…
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Americans Despise Paying Taxes Because They Perceive It As Money For Nothing
Ask just about any American “What do you get for your tax dollars” and I’ll bet you next year’s minuscule tax refund they’ll reply “Nothing. We get NOTHING!” There’s even a chance they’ll spit, too. Several times. Want to lose an election? Tell an American you’re raising his taxes. Doesn’t matter what the raised taxes…