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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (312840)11/28/2006 3:35:09 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1573708
 
re: You think people are all for "wars of choice" when they don't have to fight them. Well, I can argue that people are all for higher taxes when they themselves don't have to pay them...
No need to tell me that some people are better able to pay taxes than others, or that paying taxes has never been voluntary, because the point is that it doesn't make any sense to force people to do something just to make them think the way you do.

1. It's a valid point that taxes have never been voluntary. You think they should be?
2. They don't have to "think the way we do". They can be as hawkish as they want. They just have to take the chance that they will have to participate... the citizen soldier thing.

Are you saying no one in their right mind would be a hawk if they thought they might die? Or do you think they make a clearer decision if there is no possibility that they personally will have to fight (or pay war taxes for that matter)?
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