Originally Posted by willtsmith_nwi
Well instead of paying your federal taxes you could have:
* Built your own armed forces including ground, naval and air personnell/equipment. In addition, you could would added a nuclear deterrent arsenal complete with submsersible and rail deployment platforms in addition to fixed silo launchers.
* Constructed your own transportation system including roadways, railways and airports.
* Purchased vast tracts of land and instituted your own national park system including personnell and requisite roadways.
* Built your own orbital exploration company who is tasked with satellite communications and earth observation including weather.
* Deploy your own border surveillance and protection force.
* Employ an army of scientists tasked with researching the value and safety of your dietary and pharmeceutical requirements.
* Contract with a private detective firm who would carefully scrutinize all your purchasing decisions for common safety and environmental hazards.
* Protect your wealth from the hordes of people around you who do not have such wealth.
Once upon a time, there were people who did all these types of things themselves. They were called lords and kings. They were the law and the only institutions that mattered on their estates. The law had no protection for common people. It only held protection for the nobility. The exception would be if you were considered property of such a person. Than you would have some protection in that your murderer would have to pay compensation to you lord.
Today we divvy up these tasks in an institution called government. To pay for the right to be protected by the law, we make annual payments. They're called taxes and they are the things you are complaining about.
If you wish to descend into a lawless lasseiz-fair hell, I suggest you purchase a ticket to Baghdad where the unregulated market rules supreme. It is truly the capitalist endgame paradise. And I promise you'll have to pay no taxes whatsoever.
Lets see her do these things with her money in bahgdad.
bought a new bike for one of my sons, paid a chunk of mortgage, put money into my IRA, went on vacation, bought tickets/accomodations for my kid to go to Sonoma for the Nationals
Originally Posted by never
But I'd still pick living in Canada over the States any day.
That's fine, less people on the good trails
