The last hamburger...

[David J Brooks]

On Jan 2, 2008 1:06 PM, David Savage <ozsavage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2008 6:00 AM, P. J. Alling <webster26 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  The taxes involved were a
> > > form of economic coercion.
> > And thats different from today in what way?
> >
> > Lets see, you get a tax break for buying a house, ( but only on credit,
> > not with cash),  you get a tax break for being married, (and having
> > children).  You get taxed more if you  use alcohol, or smoke tobacco.
> > The tax system is used to punish for improper behavior, or in some cases
> > proper behavior.  Federal income taxes are so complicated that you need
> > an expert to even find out what some of the tax breaks and pitfalls are,
> > and even then the contradictory parts can bring you to grief.  Nothing
> > coercive about our current tax system.  What torques me more than
> > anything else is we vote for the a**h***s.
>
> After the lady who prepared my last tax return had finished
> calculating the damage, she said to me:
>
> "You are a good citizen. The government loves people like you."
>
> The laugh that comment generated took some of the sting out of the final total.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave (Being single with no dependants and not many deductions I wish
> the government didn't like me so much)

Get some cats, give them people names, and your on your way to
financial freedom.:-)

Dave B
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