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To: TimF who wrote (362660)	12/16/2007 11:11:15 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583744

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). Crap. Almost everything you do is taxed. Look at your typical day. Name 3 activities that don't involve a tax somewhere along the line. Even if you go for an evening stroll, the sidewalks are paid for with tax dollars. Your walking shoes had a sales tax, a corporate income tax to the manufacturer, probably an import tax, a tax on the energy to get them from overseas, a tax on the truck and the gasoline to get them to the store where you bought them, probably some taxes on the raw materials, income taxes on the folks that worked in the plant that manufactured them, ... The libertarian world view is sooo far from reality, you might as well be arguing for Heaven on Earth. Government has it's stamp on everything and is in every body's pocket. That argument is over. Now its a matter of who is penalized and who is rewarded by the tax system. That's the real discussion that needs to take place.