On Jan 2, 2008 1:06 PM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 6:00 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The taxes involved were a > > > form of economic coercion. > > And thats different from today in what way? > > > > Lets see, you get a tax break for buying a house, ( but only on credit, > > not with cash), you get a tax break for being married, (and having > > children). You get taxed more if you use alcohol, or smoke tobacco. > > The tax system is used to punish for improper behavior, or in some cases > > proper behavior. Federal income taxes are so complicated that you need > > an expert to even find out what some of the tax breaks and pitfalls are, > > and even then the contradictory parts can bring you to grief. Nothing > > coercive about our current tax system. What torques me more than > > anything else is we vote for the a**h***s. > > After the lady who prepared my last tax return had finished > calculating the damage, she said to me: > > "You are a good citizen. The government loves people like you." > > The laugh that comment generated took some of the sting out of the final > total. > > > Cheers, > > Dave (Being single with no dependants and not many deductions I wish > the government didn't like me so much)
Get some cats, give them people names, and your on your way to financial freedom.:-) Dave B > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
