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If you are not interested in a mini political diatribe, please don't waste
your time with this. I mean to offend no one, but my libratarian leanings
make it near impossible for me to ignore these disussions.
Isn't Russia a victum of a total government control gone haywire? We are
moving closer to Russian life because of government that isn't accountable
or in the slightest bit managable. I think the first 100 years of
individualism and freedom that our founding fathers set in motion in the
late 1700's has proved strong enough to fend off the total intrusion of
government up to this point.
As for unwillingness to pay taxes, wasn't Thomas Edison the one who claimed
that it was every Americans right to avoid taxes?
As to controling interest in our democracy, I vote, campaign, walk door to
door, argue and cajole with anyone who will listen to me. As yet, I have
made no impact, although living in Chicago, the bastion of machine politics,
makes it a little harder than beating my head against a cement wall.
I think the biggest problem facing us now is the "peoples" unwillingness for
anything less that total stability. We have given up a LOT of freedoms in
the name of security. By blindly electing any liar and/or cheat to office,
how does this make us more secure? How does this give us any control over
what we are taxed? What is propogated in the name of progress? What we are
told? Fool me once...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? I got news for you, it's broke, but even
car can run on one cylander and no oil for a little while.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Hanson [mailto:hantran2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 3:55 PM
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RT] Re: stop paying income taxes
on 4/4/00 9:10 AM, Phil Lane at patterntrader@xxxxxxxxxx was heard to
mumble:
>>
>> But, I think anyone who is unwilling to pay the taxes, ought to move
>> from the US. Or, stay here but make sure you drive on no roads, take no
>> medicine that even indirectly came from research supported by the NIH,
>> never listen to the weather, drink only water that's not tested by
>> government agencies for purity, never read any material from the USDA
>> before you farm or trade corn, etc.
>>
>> Conrad Bowers
>
> I believe if we took all the things you mentioned and threw in a few
others
> too it would add up to only about 1/10 the tax we're paying. It's the
OTHER
> stuff we can do without.
>
> I will be the first to voluntarily give up my favorite government program
> (what ever that is) if I could save on taxes. Would anyone like to join
> me?????
>
> rgds phil
>
>
>
hmmm lets see, no internet, no roads, no uniformity of interstate commerce,
no defense, I hear they don't pay much taxes in Russia......ever been
there?
Kim
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