Forum Post: Is a tax a limit on freedom?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 19, 2011, 11:15 p.m. EST by IminTexas
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from La Marque, TX
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Opinions greatly wanted.
So then military service is a limit on freedom and is the highest tax because it can claim years if not one's entire life. This tax is typically levied on the poor and middle class. Certainly disproportionately. The one per cent led by their benefactor G. W. Bush (who scammed a stateside guard position and then didn't even serve the full tour) started two wars exacting this tax against the national guard! They aren't even "regular" soldiers!
So that's where these self-entitled 1%ers fail. "Cause they are big on taking Exxon dividends but not too keen on moving to Iraq and trolling for IEDs.
How is it that your return should equal your investment? You are not "buying" the community. You are giving to it. Do you really think military pay in a war zone is good ROI? Do you think having to go up to the top of the twin towers was really worth the hourly wage those firemen were getting?
Greed.
The constitution gave the govt that power. If you want to make change you need to amend the constitution.
Locally, I like the services my local gvt provides in exchange for state & local taxes I pay. I wouldn't want to be responsible to bring my own garbage to the dump like some rural people have to do. I like having the streets maintained, I like that my state has some of the best public schools in the nation, etc. So I put up with the high taxes & high cost of living.
I can't really say the same about the fed. govt anymore.
I don't think so, I see tax as contributing to your community, similar to how a tribe may bring home the days hunt for everybody to be feed, simply for the good of the tribe. Unless we were to go to a completely different form of society such as communism, tax is a vital part of capitalism. Capitalism would completely implode if it were left to it's own, dog eat dog, winner take all, set of rules,,,as we are witnessing right now. If they wish for their capitalist society to survive they will have to realize this, you must give something back to it for it to survive. To me a mix of capitalism and socialism makes for a healthy society.
Yes. No one has the right to another's labour. That's where these protests fail. Most would have no problem paying some tax, as long as it was fair and spent justly
Yes. It's a claim of ownership to some degree. If you do not get fair market value in return for the capitol (labor, property) that is taken from you it is a claim on your labor which is a direct claim on your life. Now that doesn't mean that I do not see a need for contribution to community just that your return should be equal to your contribution and that is not the way it currently is.