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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: benwood who wrote (21114)	7/1/2009 3:38:49 PM
From: Zuiderzon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71454

USSR version:"Paying one's "fair share" doesn't mean paying until one bleeds or otherwise goes kaput. Supporting a massive, inefficient, bloated gov't machine and the bloated entitlements and retirement packages at ALL costs is for the same people who supported USSR as it went kaput. The perceived safety of living under the paternalistic, benevolent gov't was an illusion that led to poverty and a collapsed economy." Boy, it almost seems like paying as little as possible has the same end result: the perceived safety of living in a market economy was an illusion that looks like it may lead to poverty and a collapsed economy. Society needs money to provide the services. Either you pay for them now (taxes) or your government will have to borrow the money (Tbills) that you will have to pay for later down the line with interest. I vote for paying up front.