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CriticalBill wrote:
Did I say that? NO.Wayne-O wrote: In other words, only tax the poor and unemployed?
CriticalBill wrote: Don't tread on the productive, don't tread on the job creators, don't tread on the risk takers.....
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That's a great catch phrase, isn't it Wayne. Tell me, what is the "fair share" of every citizen? Is it "fair" to tax one citizen a greater percentage of the fruits of their own labor than it is another citizen? What do you think is the "fair share" for someone who has earned $250,001.00 in a year versus someone who has earned $249,999.00 in a year? Shouldn't their share be the same to be fair?Wayne-O wrote: Are you against everyone, no matter what income, paying their fair share in taxes?
At this point, no - but I refuse to rule out that option in the future either for myself or the posterity of the nation. Jefferson perhaps said it most succinctly in his letter to William Giles in December of 1825:Wayne-O wrote: Are you for rising up with guns and fighting the political opposition with force?
Are we then to stand to arms with the hot-headed Georgian? No. That must be the last resource, not to be thought of until much longer and greater sufferings. We must have patience and longer endurance then with our brethren while under delusion; give them time for reflection and experience of consequences; keep ourselves in a situation to profit by the chapter of accidents; and separate from our companions only when the sole alternatives left, are the dissolution of the Union with them, or submission to a government without limitation of powers. Between these two evils, when we must make a choice, there can be no hesitation. But in the meanwhile, the States should be watchful to note every material usurpation of their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of right, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.
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Which takes nothing away from the wisdom that it contains. I'm sure that McVeigh felt fully justified in what he did just as Obama feels fully justified in using the force of government to realize a "fair share" of taxes being taken from millionaires and billionaires so that it can be redistributed to others. Feeling fully justified in ones actions, in either case, doesn't mean that one is right in pursuing them.Wayne-O wrote: That was Timothy McVeigh's favorite quote and his justification for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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