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Yes. Michael went right to the root cause.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Knapp" <mknapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: [RT] RE: Re: stop paying income taxes
> 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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