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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Message-ID: <90677@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:33:39 GMT
- References: <51868@seismo.CSS.GOV> <=b#s4vc@dixie.com> <30539@castle.ed.ac.uk> <C1Fooy.8x5@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com>
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- In <C1Fooy.8x5@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> tdean@makedustuswest.com (Tony Dean) writes:
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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.
-
- This is definitely not accurate, and indicates a lack of critical
- thinking ability on the part of the authour.
-
- |>
- |> 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.
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- Don't forget that many countries pay for things through their taxes that
- we pay for individually, like health care.
- --
- Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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