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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
But your main point that the government gives you civilization is solid. Almost everyone bitches about taxes yet at the same time are all for the things government buys them. Hell the right was solidly behind the Iraq war and seemed interested in supporting the troops. Got any idea what a military like the US' cost? The left wants health care, mass transit, better schools- that's going to cost. I think both sides are pretty pro fire department. I know I'd like a fireman to show up if my house were on fire. Governments do all kind of shit, right down to getting rid of your shit.
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And that's just it.
I'm trying very hard not to go full-fledged curmudgeon here. It's gotta be, what? 80% or more of our user base on this site that hails from the US of A and you guys can run your country however you deem fit. It sort of breaks my mind a bit, though, that the US is running a deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and that a candidate still has to wave the tax-cut carrot to have any reasonable chance of election. It's not like Obama's suggesting an increase in taxes here (even though such a thing probably wouldn't be a terrible idea). Let's put this in perspective, here: your country owes over $10 trillion dollars in debt, with over $2 trillion going to China. That number is increasing, and when the baby boomers start retiring en masse it's expected to freefall. In light of these dire economic circumstances, you're complaining because you didn't get a big enough tax cut? What's that about?