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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts) Wed Dec 5, 2012, 04:02 PM Dec 2012

Why do we pay taxes?

Do we pay them to have wars-for-profit in the middle east, and subsidies for big oil, big pharma and big agra?

Or do we pay them in order to invest in US, for our education, for our infrastructure, and for our health, and to take care of those of us need?

This question needs to be part of the debt dialog, IMHO.

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Why do we pay taxes? (Original Post) grahamhgreen Dec 2012 OP

It's a social contract. We pay taxes, government spends our money on things we want. slackmaster Dec 2012 #1

I talked to a guy I guess would call himself a Libertarian doc03 Dec 2012 #2

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)

1. It's a social contract. We pay taxes, government spends our money on things we want.

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Wed Dec 5, 2012, 04:04 PM

Dec 2012

If we elect the right people.

doc03

(35,346 posts)

2. I talked to a guy I guess would call himself a Libertarian

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 06:09 PM

Dec 2012

the other day he said all federal taxes were unconstitutional. I asked him how we would even have a military without federal taxes of some kind, he thinks the corporations would create a military themselves. According to him SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment, Welfare, food stamps, I guess everything is unconstitutional. Of course he was born into a construction business, drives a BMW and a $60000 custom pickup.

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