Dear confused people,

[forgotten_aria]

Dear Confused people,

Taxes are not the government being mean and beating you up and taking you lunch money.

Comments

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

OMG seriously. This entire attitude pisses me the fuck off.

[auros]

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

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

I heartily agree.