[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:56:01 -0400
Amen to that!
Stan
Portland, Maine
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From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
>
> Phil Enns:
> > Mike Geary shares with us:
> > > The very, very, very, very,very last thing I want is to have to go to
a
> > > religious institution for anything ever.
> >
> > Really? I would never have guessed. You are usually so subtle in these
> > matters.
>
>
> : ) Yes, I usually play my cards close to my chest, but I didn't want any
> equivocation to creep into my position here.
>
>
> > I am not sure who is denying this.
>
> Well, how about 51 percent of the American electorate. Or, more locally,
> how about Brian and Paul Stone?
>
>
> >> Existence ain't free, there are dues, Junior, and the more you benefit
> > > from human society, the steeper your dues.
>
> > It seems to me the question was how
> > the dues are meted out.
>
> That's what I addressed. The dues are meted out -- or rather, should be
> meted out -- according to how much one benefits from the social structure.
>
> > It seems to me that if I have dues to pay, that
> > I ought to be the one most responsible for paying them out.
>
> Yes, you should be as long as you're paying them out to the only agency
> large enough and (one would hope) free enough from ideology to effectively
> address the societal problems incurred by sociologically wrought economic
> inequities, namely, the government. You aren't the cause of sociological
> inequity, you're merely the beneficiary (to whatever degree), you as an
> individual can't begin to meaningfully address the sociological needs
> resulting from the social structure. To think that you, individually, can
> address these problems is, well, silly.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I hate anyone telling me what to do, the government
> included, but I hate the government less and trust it more than I do
> corporations or private charities or any agency not regularly answerable
to
> the people.
>
> Amen.
>
> Mike Geary
> Soul Socialist of Memphis
>
>
>
>
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