In article , George Willer says...

Jim,

This is the best place in the world to live, as far as I know. What's
lacking is the will to stick to the principles that made it great. I'd be a
lot happier if the socialist wannabe's weren't constantly undermining it
with ideas that have never worked elsewhere long term, and certainly won't
here. Certainly you're intelligent enough to understand that.

What makes this country great is a pretty complicated thing George.
And it's not just *one* thing. The idea of taxing workers to take
care of old folks is at its heart a socialist idea - because it
means re-distributing money from folks who have it, to folks who
*don't*.

I maintain that one reason why this country is great, is because
we take care of old folks and don't just push them off on an ice
floe. (mostly)

You can argue, like gunner does, that there's *better* ways of
doing it. You can argue that we should never, in principle,
redistribute income in a socialist manner like that at all. But
honestly (and I'm not being tongue-in-cheek now) you're never
going to change the fact that our goverment works by taxing folks.

If you think you can, you're going to sorely disapointed and really
would be much happier living someplace where they don't have
taxes.


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