🚀 go-pugleaf

In <C1Fooy.8x5@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> tdean@makedustuswest.com (Tony Dean) writes:

|In article <30539@castle.ed.ac.uk>, cir@festival.ed.ac.uk (C Revie) writes:
|> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >Here is the crux of the problem.  You people in government think you know
|> >more than us mere citizens and therefore have some kind of right to deny
|> >us choice.  Bastards.  The thing that makes me so mad is I cannot come
|> >up with a way short of an armed revolution to root you people out.
|> >Maybe it must come to that.  Frankly, fuck you and your government
|> >energy policies.  Richard, maybe if you'd drop the .gov off your
|> >address and substitute a .com, you'd understand.
|> 
|> >John
|> 
|> That's what get's me about Libertarians in the USA. They think the world
|> owes them a living, and that anybody who gets in their way ought to be
|> shot.

|I don't quite believe this is accurate. Most Libertarians merely want 
|to be left alone to make their own living. They are just tired of 
|paying for "Welfare for the Middle Class" that many gov't and regulated
|agencies effectively have become.

This is definitely not accurate, and indicates a lack of critical
thinking ability on the part of the authour.

|> 
|> Two things for you to think about
|> 
|> 1) Americans pay less tax per head than any of the other G7 Nations

|I am no longer completely convinced of this. With 15.75 % Socialist
|insecurity, 23% Fed, another dose of state, local, hidden, (alcohol,
|gas, postal funds being re-routed, 7% sales in some places we can now
|give the G7 countries a good run for the money :-) If we pay less than
|any one of them, its still too close to some of them for my financial comfort.

Don't forget that many countries pay for things through their taxes that
we pay for individually, like health care.
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