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To: XoFruitCake who wrote (141490)	8/16/2008 7:11:42 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Mr FruitCake. If everybody got taxed like you then none of the state workers could retire and start second careers with health insurance. I'm glad to pay my share so i can work in the private sector and have no retirement and no health insurance [after 20 years]. I'm glad that arnold can pay for that high quality fast drying cement on the highway so the independent truckers can go broke. I'm glad to pay 10 cents per [mile] to drive in california. But i'll be damned if you have to pay more property tax. It's all ridiculous.

To: XoFruitCake who wrote (141490)	8/17/2008 1:15:16 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The only way to make it "fair" in property tax system is fully privatize all the service funded by property tax and we pay for each and everyone of them individually... People paying for what they consume -- sounds good to me. While we're at it, let's also privatize voting. Make all taxes voluntary, but with the stipulation that only those who pay taxes get to vote. Let the market discover the true value of a vote. Let only those who are willing to accept the burdens of citizenship make decisions on governance. This would greatly reduce rent-seeking and would end party politics, which is a cancer on our republic.