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

To: TimF who wrote (144248)	10/30/2008 2:00:57 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Breathing is involuntary. You pay taxes in order to maintain your lifestyle in society. I keep telling you to get off the grid. No one is saying that you are required to live this life. You do so voluntarily. Taxes are one of the prices you pay in order to do so. Wearing clothes is another price you pay. Try running around naked in society and see how far that gets you. If I live a life of poverty so that I don't have to pay income tax, the cost is greater than the cost of the tax. That is the CHOICE you make. No one has a gun to your head telling you to make enough to live in a nice house, have a nice car, have internet service...you CHOOSE this life. How do you define entitlements? Is the bail out of WS an entitlement? Which specific regulations should be reduced? Then it could eliminate almost all forms of subsidies, farm price supports, various corporate welfare programs, the milk compact etc. Why not get rid of all the subsidies for everyone? We should withdraw from Iraq and stop sending money there to build schools and the like right? Why do we pay for the WH? The President makes enough money to pay for room and board. We should certainly get rid of subsidies to large corporations. Let's send a bill for $125 billion to AIG. We can apply the proceeds (if there are any) to the national debt which has increased 85% under Bush. And it should be reluctant to take on any new areas of responsibility Like bailing out WS? To what point do we reduce 'the burden' of government? That's an opinion, not a definition.