Wake
Easygoing Conservative
- Jun 11, 2013
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All of you have brought up good points, and for that I'm grateful.
From my very limited perspective (not so much thanks to you guys) I still think people should be able to opt out of some taxes. It just doesn't seem fair to ave to pay for a bagel tax, especially if you don't even eat bagels. Or to have to pay for abortion clinics if you're ardently pro-life. If you don't believe in going to war in the Middle East, one's taxes shouldn't have to go towards that, either.
These politicians are like mosquitos and they'll stop at nothing to siphon money from you to pay for whatever it is they're up to, whether you like it or not. We should make it so that citizens pay the essentials, but not, in the very least, the fringe taxes around the country.
The problem is that once you say we should pay the "essentials," you ultimately leave it up to the discretion of politicians to arbitrarily decide what is essential. They've obviously already decided these taxes are essential, otherwise they wouldn't have imposed them.
I believe there could be a way to discern what's essential to our nation and what isn't. Roads need upkeep, as well as public buildings, like libraries. Seemingly neutral things that require taxes, like general upkeep, are less controversial than paying for abortions, unpopular wars, and contraception. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot, and everyone had to pay taxes for religious and conservative costs, like churches and mosques, and anything else that could be pertain towards religious/conservative/Republican ideologies.