I never said, or even hinted, that paying taxes is 'a service to our country' or that we should be 'service oriented', you came up with that all on your own.
That being said...your logic still does not compute. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Scott wrote: > > Usually I can follow you on these tangents, but you lost me here > > Well it's a limiting medium, but I was following your "penalty" logic > tree which goes a little somethin' like this: > > (1.) We should all be "service oriented" when it comes to our country. > > (2.) Cops, firefighters, military ... they're all paid by taxes. Thus > simply by paying my taxes, I'm serving my country since I'm helping to > pay for its infrastructure to both define and defend our principles as > well as the systems and stuff that enable me in my pursuit of life, > liberty, blah blah blah. > > In other words, to pay taxes is to serve. > > (3.) If you say that paying taxes - even at unequal rates - is a > penalty, then we're saying service at unequal rates is a penalty. > > (4.) If we set a principle that says all taxes must be of equal rate > (or it's a penalty), then we're saying all Americans must serve > equally. > > (5.) If you're in the military you're both paying taxes - so your > serving once - and then you're job is serving twice. Thus military > service must be a penalty. > > Now the counter might be that military service, or any job, is choice > (we can have the choice debate later) whereas taxes are forced. Well > taxes are only forced if you choose to earn income. > > But the point is, service to country at unequal rate is not a penalty > it's a privilege. > > If I happen to be so lucky that my wealth is orders of magnitude > greater than the average person, then I've benefited orders of > magnitude more from the infrastructure. > > So now, IMO, I owe my country *2* fees instead of one: > > (1.) pay my share. this is the same percentage as everyone else. > > (2.) pay it forward. this is the extra percentage I pay to help > others achieve what I have. > > BUT. If this concept is considered "unfair" then let's lets talk > about your model for leveling service to country for all citizens. > What kind of credits do cops get? Do teachers serve? If so what's > their credit? > > If a soldier dies, he's served more than a soldier that lives. What's > the credit/penalty equation there? etc etc > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290682 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
