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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-14-09 05:49 PM
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What are you doing for tax day
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Edited on Tue Apr-14-09 05:50 PM by Juche
Are you doing anything to celebrate that in exchange for 20-30% of your gross income going to taxes you get the infrastructure of our democracy, a military, police, fire department, half of our scientific & medical research, roads, a public K-12 educational system and heavily subsidized state public university system, a pension and healthcare in retirement (social security and medicare), a quasi-social safety net and a variety of oversight organizations?

There is nowhere on the private market where I would get that for 25% of my gross income. So I happily pay 25% of my income in public funds to get it all.

If the right wing is going to complain about taxes, I'm going to brag.
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