
Originally Posted by
Thondalar
The tax happened because the powerful got greedy. Same with the Federal Reserve. We're trillions and trillions of dollars in debt right now...sorry, but I don't consider that a success.
Also, this is completely unrelated to my loss of freedoms. I wasn't aware the Patriot Act had any clauses relating to taxation or the Fed.
Never said that. Quite the opposite, actually.
Never said that either.
I think there should be bigger penalties for people who bring frivolous lawsuits, but I'm not against the idea completely. I do think that busybody lawyers have caused more harm than good in the long term, though it's hard to weight the negatives and positives in any realistic manner.
I'm against a lot of regulations that exist under the guise of protecting us, and I think people should be more responsible for their own protection.
I think we could stand to cut the budget there by several billion, and change some of the ways we do business with it, but completely defunding it is absurd.
Got no problem paying municipal taxes, already said that.
A logical, well-adjusted person.