forgotten_aria: (hypnotoad)
forgotten_aria ([personal profile] forgotten_aria) wrote2008-10-11 04:20 pm

Dear confused people,

Dear Confused people,

Taxes are not the government being mean and beating you up and taking you lunch money.
auros: (Money)

[personal profile] auros 2008-10-12 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Tom Friedman FTW!

[M]y parents taught me that paying taxes, while certainly no fun, was how we paid for the police and the Army, our public universities and local schools, scientific research and Medicare for the elderly. No one said it better than Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization."

Civilization

[identity profile] binkbink.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I heartily agree.