Taxation: Where do you stand?

[El Kabong]

Taxation is theft. It's not given freely or not at no consequence, it's a demand of government and for people who think government is way too big and provides way too much it's a burden. A burden only a few people actually shoulder while others just sit back in the social safetynet hammock and are carried.

Burdensome taxes kill jobs and motivation.

Our founding documents don't paint the United States or it's citizens as a charity. The government has no place in that. That should be the PEOPLE who address charity, the COMMUNITY...not at the threat of jail or point of a gun, but out of the goodness and kindness of their hearts, of their own free will. Perhaps then we'd care a bit more about just who is allowed into our great nation.

[TitoFan]

And yet there are oh so many things in life that are supposedly "the government's job." Think roads, bridges, infrastructure in general. When one of these fails, it's the government that gets the blame. So yeah... I'm all for the right sized government. Said so at the outset. But to pretend many things can be done without it is just not practical, IMO. As of this moment in time, the government's main source of income is through taxes. If there was another source that could allow government to carry out its functions, then by all means. But so far nothing else exists. So in effect it's the people... yes... carrying some of the burden that otherwise would go unfinanced. The problem is it has never been done to the satisfaction of all. There are those who favor no taxes at all for some and a hell of a lot for others... and there are those who favor no taxes whatsoever and let the chips fall where they may. Both extremes are full of holes, IMO.