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To: Road Walker who wrote (362371)	12/12/2007 9:56:12 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583733

"You want that shit but you want to pay 3rd world prices for it. Or put it on debt for some other generation." For some reason, it is popular to think our civilization is a given and doesn't need to be paid for. Sort of like what happened to the British Empire.

To: Road Walker who wrote (362371)	12/12/2007 12:35:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583733

JF, > That IS the problem. You want a free ride. You take the stability, the legal system, the good roads, the good police and fire, the good health care, the large military, the reliable energy, the good phone system, all the benefits for granted. They cost money. You want that shit but you want to pay 3rd world prices for it. Or put it on debt for some other generation. What brings us all of these benefits is a strong economy. Not "country club dues." You don't tax people into a booming economy. Instead, you let the free market do its thing, and then the tax revenues will follow. It's obvious you don't recognize that. It's much easier for you to accuse me of wanting a free ride. This as you push for higher taxes, thinking that's going to help cut spending and sustain all of our public services, a lot of which are already inefficient in its spending. That's backwards thinking mixed with stubbornness. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (362371)	12/13/2007 3:29:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583733

That IS the problem. You want a free ride. You take the stability, the legal system, the good roads, the good police and fire, the good health care, the large military, the reliable energy, the good phone system, all the benefits for granted. They cost money. Tax money for many social programs is only questionably related to stability. The phone system, much of medical care spending, a good part of the legal system, some roads, and most energy costs are in the private sector, and the extent that some of these things are handled by the private sector could easily be increased. (For example the annual energy bills tend to be a bunch of subsidies and pork, and should be slashed, perhaps mostly or even completely eliminated).