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To: JohnM who wrote (148402)	10/29/2010 1:23:20 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 543440

They should accept taxes as part of helping create and maintain the conditions that make business itself possible. Fair point and one I agree with.

To: JohnM who wrote (148402)	10/29/2010 1:34:49 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543440

"They should accept taxes as part of helping create and maintain the conditions that make business itself possible" Your question assumes that every tax dollar actually contributes to the conditions that make business possible. At some point the inefficiency of government becomes a burden, not only on business, but on all of us. The Argument is not as you like to frame between no taxes and taxes. The difference is do we get results for our tax money spent. I think we have passed the point where that can be said. Something is drastically wrong when the department of education budget is 60 billion a year while our schools have gone from the best in the world to among the worst. When everyone acknowledges that there is 60 billion in medicare fraud, waste and abuse, and it continues year after year. When most major cities in the country have budgets that are larger than ever, despite declining populations and yet are rife with crime and deteriorating conditions. And the list could go on. Yet you want to turn more money and power over to a government that can't perform the basic functions of government. I say the government should learn to do the basics first before they ask for more money to run my life. lj