Sparhawk

First off, I'd like to say:

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

This happens ALL the time. Corporate bailouts, Farm subsidies, Nation Building: the list goes ON and ON and ON and ON. Should we have given billions to bail out the airline industry after 9/11? How about the tens of Billions in subsidies for farms, the majority of which doesn't go to small farmers, but rather to the gigantic so-called factory farms. And then there is the tens of billions we are spending rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, some of this spending I agree with, some I don't, but it should be included in the list when we talk "taking money from me and giving it to others," because to say that only unemployed scumbags get the federal dole, and to use that as an excuse to decry the high state of taxes, is asanine.

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"In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."