Rod & Betty Jo wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Rod & Betty Jo wrote:
My point is the elderly, ill or disabled ......Indeed there are
those among us whom cannot through no fault of their own support
themselves. To deny these as less worthy to vote than those blessed
with good health is quite despicable. And I would suggest quite
contrary to the basic ideals of a freedom loving people. How with
a clear conscious can one support such arrogance? Rod


How can you support the forced redistribution of personal property by
threat of government force? I am all for helping those who are in
need by no action on their own part. I am NOT for being forced to do
so with the government's gun in my ear while some third party decides
for me just who is and who is not worthy of *my* assets.

The issue I was specifically addressing is whom is allowed to vote......

Noted


On taxation itself, society as we know it as well as the ability to earn
said taxed income would not exist without a tax funded Government. People by
their very nature would not voluntarily send in sufficient funds to finance
even a shell of what we have today. Oddly worldwide as well as historically
countries that spend money and tax their people have the highest standard of
living and are the most productive societies. One may rationally argue that
being on the lower end of the curve works better U.S. Vs Europe but
societies with little or no tax do not do well at all......Rod



I do not object to taxation per se. I object to taxation beyond that
necessary to maintain the liberty in a nation-state. History does
indeed show that some kind of government is needed to preserve
liberty. But "defending liberty" in terms of monies expended by the US
Federal government (for military and the DOJ - the primary instruments
thereof) is relatively the smaller of our spendings. Between the
social do-gooding that has polluted our government and the consequent
debt this created, something well north of 60% of the Federal treasury
gets burned down ... for something the Feds have *no* permission to
do. It's absurd.


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