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Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I pay close to 60% in my income to some sort of tax, be it MD (hugely liberal) state tax, baltimore city tax, property tax, federal income tax, property tax, different licensing fees that are just taxs disguised as fees. What do I get in return for this? Some roads that were paved a couple of decades ago? A police force that doesn't do shit to stop rampant theft where I live? A bunch of subsidies for people who willingly choose not to work? Cool story. Fuck taxes, fuck liberals. That is all.

Your money is paying for the US military to play world police all over the world, including Europe and Japan, which have enough money for their own militaries but don't bother because they can just use ours.

If you lived in a country like Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, etc, etc, you'd be paying a similar amount of taxes but you would actually be getting something out of it. Healthcare, government-funded post-secondary education, infrastructure.

Ask yourself, which side of the aisle serves the military-industrial complex? Both of them, really. But "sissy liberals" are a little less gung-ho about interventionism and defense spending, aren't they? Obama tried to enact $1 trillion in defense spending cuts, but republican congress capped them at $496 billion.

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A bunch of subsidies for people who willingly choose not to work?

This is a tiny fraction of overall government spending, but the right-wing spin machine would have you believe it's all the government does. Most of that money is going to old people, or is being stolen by health-insurance companies / healthcare providers. Next time you get in your pickup truck to go club some welfare queens, I suggest you drive to your nearest retirement community.

Originally Posted by Daywolf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They do when they burn. I know that for a fact living in an extreme fire danger zone. In fact I grew up in LA during the 70's, when you could hardly see your hand in front of your face because of the pollution. More so during Carters administration ehem, not today, and all the global warming end-of-teh-world a decade away crap. I have no interest in environmentalist alarmist propaganda, those leftists won't be happy until the human race is eradicated from the face of the earth and they are "reincarnated" into slugs and snakes, Comrade.

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do" -Daywolf