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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (144031)	10/29/2008 4:36:29 PM
From: geode00	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

What? That makes no sense whatsoever. You don't go into a store and just start handing over cash. You hand over the cash because you expect you will receive a product or service in return. If you had no such expectation you would not be handing out cash. That would be called being insane. What? Do you pay your mortgage voluntarily? Is that a fun and exciting activity every month? Do you pay your electric bill, your credit card bill and all of your other bills with a gleeful expression? I know that the tax code is ridiculous. It takes a big chunk of time and effort to comply with it. That doesn't mean that taxation, handing over some money to society in exchange for goods and services, is much different from handing over money to get electrical service. I hate the phone company but the option is no service or another company equally as bad. As I have said repeatedly, if taxation is this onerous why aren't more Americans leaving as much of society behind as possible (say living in a barter economy) in order to not be so unhappy? Obviously, the negative of taxation is offset by the positive of what we get from society.