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Some may disagree with me (heck, I don't think 'may' is the best word there). That's ok. We live in a representative republic, and we're all ultimately in the same boat. The CAUTION SHARED PATH icon is representative of that. I try to remember to use this icon when posting about political subjects, because it helps remind me that whichever road we're on as a nation, we're all on it together.
Bob Reich* says what I can't really find the time to say in A Short Citizen's Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day. It's true. Taxes are a good thing. They pay for all those things we often take for granted, like co-workers with basic reading skills, roads, and drinking water.
My brother's father-in-law noted on Saturday that the folks who grouse loudest are the same people who complain the most when there's a pothole in their cul-de-sac. I think he might have been talking about a specific person at the time. Anyway,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sylphslider said it succinctly enough, "Hurray for paying taxes."
Bob Reich* says what I can't really find the time to say in A Short Citizen's Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day. It's true. Taxes are a good thing. They pay for all those things we often take for granted, like co-workers with basic reading skills, roads, and drinking water.
My brother's father-in-law noted on Saturday that the folks who grouse loudest are the same people who complain the most when there's a pothole in their cul-de-sac. I think he might have been talking about a specific person at the time. Anyway,
sylphslider said it succinctly enough, "Hurray for paying taxes."* I don't really call him Bob, though I'm told his friends do.
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As a registered Nothing, the two parties are honestly starting to look like the same car with different accessories. Guess I'll continue to stick with walking.
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I think though that John Wick had the best response to the whole teabagging protesters thing. Read it here. He makes a decent argument all the way through, but it's the last three paragraphs that are the most meaningful for me.
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It's unfortunate that much of the additional revunue California hopes to gain comes from raising the sales tax and an across-the-board increase in the income tax, both of which are regressive. Also, these are sources of income that dry up in hard times, scarcely a responsible way to fund state expenditures.
That said, I found Garry Wills's account of the original Boston Tea Party (Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Doubleday, 1978) to be fascinating. It was not simply a matter of a few individuals tossing small cannisters of tea into Boston Harbor — the tea chests weighed three hundred pounds apiece, and there were considerable logistical challenges to be overcome.
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