re: #396 HappyWarrior

I was thinking about some abstract concepts last night about how everything relates to everything in the end. Taxes ain’t any different. I very much subscribe to what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said on taxes, “I like taxes, with them I buy civilization.” Like yeah I don’t like paying taxes in the sense that I like a fine meal or good book but in the end, I know paying taxes helps society function. The right has made the debate not about how much taxes we should be paying but whether we should be paying them at all and given their views on the military and national deefnse, that’s extremely stupid. You can’t want the most massive military in the world as I’m sure Kaitlin wants and insist taxation is theft.

Precisely.
Though always remember their arguments aren’t meant to be “right” or logical
They are all means to end
In this case lower taxes, so we have to cut the budget and so what’s left gets spent on whatf I want..yeah mostly military