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- From: bade@austin.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: austin.talk
- Subject: Re: If you dump Bush, dump Congress too, (at least.)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.193530.13178@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:35:30 GMT
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- My mistake. By living in Germany I implied that I was also working in Germany. Since
- I earn income in Germany the german government levies taxes.
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- You make an assumption that you get some benifit from your taxes. As a non-working student
- you are getting a free ride off of the tax dollars of the American tax payer. You equate
- the fact that you pay taxes to getting the right to vote, in otherwords you want to buy
- the right to vote. Taxation by the federal government was put into the constitution as
- an Amendment. Voting rights were granted in the original document (granted womens voting
- rights were added as an amendment).
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- By earning money in a foreign country you are expected to pay part of that money back for
- the government provided services you utilize. As a non-working student, you are on a special
- permit to be living in the country, you get most of those services (not that they are worth
- anything) for free. Think of your now paying taxes as paying for what you used.
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- Steve Bade
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- Regards,
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- Steve
- "A good programmer, as a function of what he does,
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