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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1763853" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>Funny... I've been watching this discussion and wondering...</p><p></p><p>I don't personally mind paying taxes. I work the tax system like I worked my ranch to get the most out of it. It doesn't take a lot of work to avoid most taxes. I've even gotten more back than I paid in, some years. And what would we have for roads, schools, and a military to protect our nation if there were no taxes? Sure... it's popular to gripe... but does anyone really want to live in a country where we don't have the things we have which are paid for with taxes?</p><p></p><p>If I'm going to gripe it's going to be about how taxes are being <em>spent.</em> We pay much more for things through governmental largesse than we need to. But governmental spending has value too... I just see the way taxes are spent as lazy thinking. I mean, there is no meaningful negotiating being done. And don't even get me started on the pure waste, like the way we gathered 35K horses off the open range to feed them until they died in dirt corrals while leaving so many horses on the range that they repopulated to higher numbers now... and we are paying 100 million dollars a year to feed, house, and care for the gathered horses.</p><p></p><p>So I'm pretty okay with paying taxes. I really don't get the simplistic thinking about taxes, saying that taxes are a burden... without any appreciation in what we receive out of our common efforts and for our common good. Taxes are simply a part of being a functional nation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1763853, member: 42463"] Funny... I've been watching this discussion and wondering... I don't personally mind paying taxes. I work the tax system like I worked my ranch to get the most out of it. It doesn't take a lot of work to avoid most taxes. I've even gotten more back than I paid in, some years. And what would we have for roads, schools, and a military to protect our nation if there were no taxes? Sure... it's popular to gripe... but does anyone really want to live in a country where we don't have the things we have which are paid for with taxes? If I'm going to gripe it's going to be about how taxes are being [I]spent.[/I] We pay much more for things through governmental largesse than we need to. But governmental spending has value too... I just see the way taxes are spent as lazy thinking. I mean, there is no meaningful negotiating being done. And don't even get me started on the pure waste, like the way we gathered 35K horses off the open range to feed them until they died in dirt corrals while leaving so many horses on the range that they repopulated to higher numbers now... and we are paying 100 million dollars a year to feed, house, and care for the gathered horses. So I'm pretty okay with paying taxes. I really don't get the simplistic thinking about taxes, saying that taxes are a burden... without any appreciation in what we receive out of our common efforts and for our common good. Taxes are simply a part of being a functional nation. [/QUOTE]
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