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To: ralfph who wrote (138982)	12/12/2008 1:29:30 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 312670

I don't believe taxes are moral. They should be voluntary. I have listened to the argument about how we could not pay for roads, hospitals, schools and armies. I don't see why they should pay civil servants at all. If people want roads, they should get out of the car and build them by hand. The alternative should make for inventiveness in that department. Enough people want to get somewhere, they will find a way to chip in and build the road. If children need teaching, then they can hire somebody to teach them all they will remember five years after leaving University. That should take about 5 minutes. Simplifies the whole process. I haven't seen a job in 40 years of working that took more than three days to train for. A brain surgeon may take 5 days. Airline pilots a week, as chatting up stewardesses could take advanced skills. The fewer computer programmers and engineers around, probably the less wasted time on the keyboard and the fewer bridges to collapse. After all the Romans did not have MIT and their bridges are still standing. Given another 2000 years you could populate a small state with the number of people killed by MIT-designed bridges collapsing. People should work for the good of the country as interns. Everyone gets to volunteer for two years out of their entire career to work in government. It should be its own reward. Drs. don't have to work for government. They don't have to work at all. If your relatives and friends won't chip in and pay your medical bills if you are dying then you don't have any, and might benefit by a quicker exit. EC<:-}