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| Banandangees | Mar 27 2014, 03:38 AM Post #51 |
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When our nation became a nation, people were taxed (the government has no money by it's own doing). The taxes were to be used to provide national services that benefited the nation. The collective taxes were to be budgeted to return services such as roads, defense, etc.. They were expected to operated within a budget that was restricted by the nation's income (taxes). The mud slide "relief service" scenario that you use would be funded by the peoples taxes. It should be within national budgeting for emergency purposes. It has nothing in common with "coercion." Your scenario as an example of government service has nothing in common with the government requiring/forcing citizens to buy a product and if not are fined for not doing so..... not in a Republic, a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, which is how this nation started out and how, via this executive type power, usurps more and more power from the people and gives it to itself.... I doubt the founding fathers had in mind to require citizens to buy a product and to fine them if they didn't..... didn't have in mind to take from those who work and give to those who don't for "equalization" purposes, a Robin Hood "take from the rich and give it to the poor," that's socialism/communism. That's not how "republics" are suppose to work. |
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| Sea Dog | Mar 27 2014, 03:47 AM Post #52 |
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You will be hard pressed to find a farmer who will turn down taxpayers money in the form of subsidies and other gifts! |
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| Banandangees | Mar 27 2014, 03:57 AM Post #53 |
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Or a commercial fisherman. And Canada subsidizing it's oil industry. What's that all about? |
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