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Thread #54600   Message #846852
Posted By: GUEST
13-Dec-02 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Republican leadership racist
Subject: RE: BS: Republican leadership racist
Exactly my point troll, sorry it went right over your head. That is exactly what I'm saying. Our tax dollars support the nation's and the state's road system, so even if we don't use them, or don't want them, we still pay our taxes in support of them.

Same is true of the health care system. Of the government agents needed for the agriculture industry and the food distribution industry to operate effectively.

Those systems are all functioning because we pay taxes to get those services and infrastructures to work FOR SOCIETY'S BENEFIT, NOT THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN's BENEFIT. Without educated workers, we can't run the systems, build and maintain the infrastructures, etc. That is why everyone pays to support public education. If we didn't, we'd have dumb ass idiots (like politicians, for instance) who aren't trained to do anything, responsible for our medical care, our air traffic control system, etc.

Now, just because a citizen has never flown in an airplane in their life, doesn't mean their taxes shouldn't be used to support the businessman who flies every week, now does it?

To suggest that we don't need to pay taxes, or that we only pay taxes selectively for the things a certain constituency or special interest groups likes and/or uses, defeats the very purpose government serves. Government is here to serve society. Sometimes that means serving individuals (as in health care and education) and sometimes that means serving business (the airline, railroad, and trucking industries), and sometimes it is a combination of both (parks and open space, the arts, sports infrastructures).