Almost everyone agrees our taxes are grossly mismanaged. We certainly don't have much choice as to how 50 per cent of our earnings are to be spent, and a good portion of what it is being spent on we don't agree with.
A few more questions to ask yourself:
In a place of employment where there is a union, can I as an individual make a contract with the employer regarding my salary pension, benefits. etc. Furthermore, if I am satisfied, can I continue working (or for that matter withdraw my services for a while) in contrast to a majority union vote?
As a responsible businessman, can I choose to trade with anyone, anytime, anywhere, to everybody's satisfaction?
As a farmer can I choose to produce what or how much I want?
Doesn't "society" stand ready to grab any profit or wealth an individual can produce and/or accumulate and distribute it unfairly to non-producers? Exceptions, of course, being some extremely wealthy persons who do not pay any taxes at all.
If I am my brother's keeper (and I keep a lot of "brothers" through my taxes) why are my brothers not my keepers, and we can all happily keep each other?
But what then are we going to keep each other with, if nobody produces any wealth such as goods, services, etc.?
Now government and taxes for the individual's and the nation's rights and safety are certainly a must, and naturally the very young, the elderly and the sick should be taken care of, if through no fault of their own it is needed.
Don't get me wrong. Of the tyrannies in existence today, democracy is by far to be preferred, but true freedom we ain't got!
Gertrud Jorgensen
Burlington.
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