[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:44:37 -0500
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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