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- From: tdean@makedustuswest.com (Tony Dean)
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
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- References: <51868@seismo.CSS.GOV> <=b#s4vc@dixie.com> <30539@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:46:09 GMT
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- In article <30539@castle.ed.ac.uk>, cir@festival.ed.ac.uk (C Revie) writes:
- > jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >
- >
- > >Here is the crux of the problem. You people in government think you know
- > >more than us mere citizens and therefore have some kind of right to deny
- > >us choice. Bastards. The thing that makes me so mad is I cannot come
- > >up with a way short of an armed revolution to root you people out.
- > >Maybe it must come to that. Frankly, fuck you and your government
- > >energy policies. Richard, maybe if you'd drop the .gov off your
- > >address and substitute a .com, you'd understand.
- >
- > >John
- >
- > That's what get's me about Libertarians in the USA. They think the world
- > owes them a living, and that anybody who gets in their way ought to be
- > shot.
-
- I don't quite believe this is accurate. Most Libertarians merely want
- to be left alone to make their own living. They are just tired of
- paying for "Welfare for the Middle Class" that many gov't and regulated
- agencies effectively have become.
-
- >
- > Two things for you to think about
- >
- > 1) Americans pay less tax per head than any of the other G7 Nations
-
- I am no longer completely convinced of this. With 15.75 % Socialist
- insecurity, 23% Fed, another dose of state, local, hidden, (alcohol,
- gas, postal funds being re-routed, 7% sales in some places we can now
- give the G7 countries a good run for the money :-) If we pay less than
- any one of them, its still too close to some of them for my financial comfort.
-
- >
- > 2) Your infrastructure is knackered
-
- Not necessarily. Gov't is not the only perveyor of infrastructure. When
- we get good work at a reasonable return on investment thats good. When
- we get slipshod, corrupt, poorly managed, and unnecessary projects
- it is bad. There is far too much "BAD" in many of our buracracies. Some
- ppl are simply tired of it.
-
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- Tony Dean - Consultant with Cap Gemini America
- e-mail: tdean@eatdust.uswest.com
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