Always ask,
I said that:
1. The government has no right to tax people simply any amount they decide to. Taxes have to be fair, they should not have a devastating financial effect on people and their families. A government demanding heavy taxes is stealing from its citizens.
2. I said that for those whom taxes affect to such an extent as to cause financial harm to themselves and their families, I can understand why they wouldn’t pay all the tax the government claims they need to pay.
Your response to what i said is interesting and revealing because you are going sideways and claiming i said things i never said. You write, “Phil, I think that your attitude that you don’t need to follow the laws that you don’t find convenient…”Er, I find many laws inconvenient, I never advocated not to follow those “laws” i find inconvenient….You don’t even know anything about my tax situation, you ASSUME that because I believe that people should have sufficient income and the government has no right to take it away from them, that I don’t pay my taxes. I never said that I don’t pay my taxes nor did I insinuate that. And I absolutely never spoke about not following laws in general that I find inconvenient.
You write:” In a democracy, voters will come to some consensus how to spend money and how to support old people”. It is irrelevent how voters will decide. Numbers need to add up regardless of votes. At some point , if facts and numbers don’t add up, governments collapse, certainly government programs do. Not that i believe Americans would in any case have a vote on “how to support old people”, but even if we had any say, it’s irrelevent if it’s not a sustainable program.
You write “And please consider any offense you perceive society perpetrated against you in the context of all the good that you enjoy daily”??? Where have I said anything about society perpetuating offenses against me?
You write”Sorry for sounding like Obama “you didnt build that”, but this goes back to, I think, Ben Azzai who wondered in morning brochos how many people had to work that day to make all the things he will be using.” Huh? Whats the shaychus? I never said I don’t appreciate what others contribute/d to our society, that’s irrelevent to this conversation.