Saturday, August 30, 2008

Raising and Cutting Taxes - The Wrong Question

The recent Democratic National Convention featured some talk about raising and cutting taxes for people of different economic status.

Rather than ask the question, should we raise or not cut tax for the wealthy, the middle class, the poor, etc, I think people should simply ask, is it right and OK to impose their wills and agendas on other people and force them to pay for their causes?

We have to pay taxes for government spending. Government spends money on things that are driven by people's causes and political agendas. Everyone pig piles onto this spit fire jockeying for their own cause to be paid for, which means forcing other people, likely even your friends and family, to pay for your cause, if your cause is one of the things funded.

That is one of the most selfish, self-centered, mean, manipulative, and evil things an individual can do. Force someone else to do something against their will. It flies directly in the face of liberty, and it is morally wrong and a despicable trait.

If a friend, through their manipulative ways, forced you to pay for some work to be done on their house or one of their family members' house, how would you feel about them? Would you want to keep them as a friend? Or would you think it fair?

This is what's involved with trying to get representatives of government to manipulate the purse strings of a centralized legally-enforced tax system and manipulate a central bank to do their bidding. Do you think that's ok? Or do you think it's selfish, manipulative, and evil?

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