re: #364 Obdicut

I’m sorry, Reine, but to me that is a contradictory statement. If it legally belongs to someone else, and you have to give it to them, then it’s not yours. It’s theirs.

Like I said, if I make a deal with a guy that I’ll give him every tenth fish that I catch, that tenth one is never really mine. It’s always his. It’s in my net, but it’s his the moment I catch it. Likewise, with taxes. You know the deal ahead of time. You know how much you will owe on your fishes. You know, when you earn it, how much of it is the government’s. I’d submit that it never really is yours, that portion, in exactly the same way the fish is never mine.

If you do think the fish is mine, then we’re just having a more fundamental disagreement about terms, I guess.

See - I see the fish as mine, and I make a gift of it of my own will.
Of course in the case of government and taxes, I haven’t been part of making the deal. The gov’t simply decides, and tells me what I owe. And - fine! I’ll pay it.

And I’ll also still give away 1/10 of my fish to other things, as well.