Hi RAZD,
RAZD writes:
It is, when you are telling them to change their behavior to suit your beliefs.
How is telling them to change their behavior to suit your own beliefs imposing your will on them?
Now if you have an apartment building and you have rented an apartment to a person and later that person moves a roommate of the same sex into the apartment, and you find out they are gay and tell them they have to change their belief or move, that is trying to impose one's will on another person.
But if they are unwilling to move they are trying to impose their belief on the person who owns the property.
RAZD writes:
With everyone pay a just proportion of taxes for programs that have been passed by the peoples representatives -- rather than starting unfunded wars like the schrubbia administration -- we don't have a problem. Most of the costs we see in the budget come from the war budgets, so we could cut those if we want to reduce spending.
I believe in a flat tax or no tax at all.
I lived in the Cayman Islands for 15 years and they have no income taxes, no sales tax, and a one time land tax.
Yet they have funds for their programs.
There is a set amount of duty on everything that is brought into the country which is added to the cost of products and when anyone buys those products they are paying a portion of that duty that was paid by the importer.
Thus they have a flat consumption tax in which everyone that buys anything is participating.
Until the last 4 years I was there the government had no debt but they decided to expand government like the rest of the world and borrowed money to do things. Which will mess up that country.
No country can spend more than it takes in. My state has to balance the budget every year. No money can be spent that is not covered by income.
To fix our problem there would have to be a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. This would force the government to live within its means. In other words spend what comes in and borrow no money.
In fact we need to spend less because we have a growing 16.4+ national debt that needs to be paid back.
$1.4 Trillion dollars have been spent on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan including billions of dollars that was given to corrupt people in those governments that was diverted from the intended use to gains for crooked politicans.
But during the Obama administration we have gone from a 10.63 trillion dollar national debt to over 16.4 trillion national debt the day he started his second term. That is an increase of 5.77 trillion dollars and at the present rate will be over 22.17 trillion dollars. That is an increase under Obama of 11.54 trillion dollars which is almost a trillion dollars over double the national debt the day he took office.
We have a spending problem and there is no way to tax our way out of the problem.
Since the states do not get to decide how the money is spent why should they participate in such a ponzi scheme? By doing so they are doing their citizens a disservice.
Washington is out of control and a train wreck waiting to happen.
We must cut spending, else what are we going to do when the well goes dry and no one buys our worthless bonds?
RAZD writes:
Taxes are user fees for citizens to live in the USA, and those that benefit most from the economy etc provided by the government should pay more for that benefit.
Taxes are not users fees.
Taxes are funds that are extracted from the citizens to fund the lavish living styles of those in power.
Why do you think our congress does not cut spending?
The movement for disolving or leaving the union is because the Federal government has gotten to big for its britches and have begun to IMPOSE its will upon the states with impunity. Up until now no one has questioned the Federal government.
God Bless,
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