I guess we need to end this debate. You and I are obviously on different pages about what does and does not constitute 'service to the country' and I do not see either of s changing the other person's mind.
However, I feel the need to re-iterate that I feel saying you are doing service to your country because you pay taxes and don't steal stuff belittles the TRUE service being done by every member of our military. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Stroz wrote: > > Then why have laws? Using your arguemnt, ANY law can be contstrued as > legal > > extortion, can it not? > > Law is mechanism we've chosen to use to maintain the infrastructure > that allows us all life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. > > Maintaining and enforcing the law needs a revenue mechanism. > > Taxes are the revenue mechanism. > > Thus taxes are service. > > Thus paying them is the law. > > To answer your earlier question: enforcing the law is service, but > abiding by the law is a requirement of citizenship as agreed to by the > citizen since, if you don't like the law, there's a mechanism in place > for you to change it. > > The alternative is living in tress and throwing poop at each other. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:290768 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
