Re: [OT] Iraq

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:11:33 -0600, LX-i <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Choices are being made for Americans every day, with the money taken
from us, and being used for who knows what. Do I want to use my money
to bail out an airline? Nope. I fly occasionally, and when I do,
*then* they get some of my money to try to help their bottom line. Why
are my tax dollars funding schools? Among my three kids, they have a
total of one semester in a public school. So, I've basically payed for
everyone else's kids to go to school, and I *still* had to write a check
to a school (when we sent them to private school) or buy textbooks
myself (when we home-school). Sure, it's my choice, and it's one that
I've made - but why should I still be taxed to fund public schools? I
don't care about public schools!

The state pays for public schools because powers want lots of workers
earning them money. Educated workers make the country strong and
wealthy - which gives them more power.

The same thing applies to all the issues I mentioned above, and then
some. When the government takes *my* money to give it to someone else
(not the aforementioned "common" things), *that's* socialism.

When the government takes your money to do anything at all with it, it
is still taking your money and spending it the way it wants. Some
people think some expenditures are worth while, and others think other
expenditures are worth while.

And there really isn't a significant difference when your employer
takes some of the money it costs to hire you and subsidizes insurance
- and all of the other people using that insurance pay for your
medical care. And the hospitals charge enough to pay for the poor
and for the paperwork. It still is society paying.
.

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