Extremities, Existence, and Safety: Worrying Themselves to Death

Another retort to a questioning of whether or not taxation is necessary, is that it is an extreme viewpoint.

Ask yourself this in considering that position: Are the "liberals" who claim that George Bush is evil or that Republicans are selfish espousing extreme viewpoints? Are the "conservatives" who claim that Barrack Obama is evil or that Democrats are too loose with other people's money espousing extreme viewpoints?

If you only surround yourself with straight Democratic and/or Republican party line viewpoints, then indeed other viewpoints will seem extreme. But isn't banging your head against a wall doing things the same way over and over again a bit extreme?

Another retort to a questioning of taxation is that we're asserting that government should not be allowed to tax its citizens at all (and presumably therefore cease to exist).

The government does not exist solely to tax. We didn't have required Federal income taxes prior to the early part of the last century, and the IRS was even formed until the 1950s. Yet, the US government existed from 1776 through the 1800s and early part of 1900s...largely without personal income taxation.

The bottom line retort to a question of taxation's necessity is that the people who advocate it, state that they're willing to give up some of their income for safety assurances.

Which hits straight to the point of my position on taxation. They want other people (be it strangers, their family, their friends) to pay for their causes because it makes them feel good. They feel that this is ok. That selfishness, self-centeredness, and imposition of their will on others....is ok.

Which means that they must feel it is ok for other people to assert their selfishness, self-centeredness, and imposition of will on the government even if it affects them adversely.

Do you see any long term (or even short term) issues with this on the state of the union?