"During the campaign of civil disobedience I and several people I know refused to pay the poll tax." - Stigweard

OK Stig, now how would you regard it if others all of a sudden in their own "campaign of civil disobedience" decided which taxes they would pay and which taxes they would not - would you, by your own previously set precedent support them at the cost of your own dimished services, or would you condemn them as parasites.

The unbound hypocracy of the left never ceases to amaze me.

Folkiedave in your analogy you forget to mention that in addition to the Poll Tax the millionaire you speak of would also pay a damn sight more in income tax than the low paid worker. You also omit the fact that what Poll Tax went towards was probably of far greater benefit to the low paid worker than ever it was to the millionaire.

The tenets of the left:

It is always somebody else's fault.

Somebody else should always pay.

Unfortunately real life is not like that, learn to live with that fact and get on with it.

Emigration to Australia trebled in the last four years, I'm not surprised, but it won't be the likes of Sigweard, Backwoodsman or Folkiedave that have gone. There is no soft option in uprooting yourself and transplanting yourself and your future in a foreign land - you've got to work for whatever you wish for, nobody is going to hand it to you on a platter - a concept the likes of Stigweard, Folkiedave and Backwoodsman just cannot seem to grasp, they want some rich "bastard" to come along and provide it for them.