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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))9/22/2011 5:06:03 am PDT

re: #202 re: #202 Cannadian Club Akbar

I wonder if she includes the 50% of people who pay little or no taxes.

You mean those “social parasites” who are still under 18 or over 65 or otherwise unable to work and help others earn a profit which can be taxed?

You mean those shiftless folks who pay only sales taxes on the goods they purchase from the money they make at their minimum-wage jobs?

The point is that even the most individual success story is a couunal effort (if I dare use a term that sounds like “communism”) here.

It is not about “redistribution of wealth”, it is just a matter of paying for services rendered: those who benefit the most should pay a greater share, especially those who benefit from a stable and functioning legal and physical infrastructure, those who benefit from having the US military there to protect access to their resources, as well as an education system.