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SSgtParmer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The waterboarding the CIA does is also voluntary, because the government does the waterboarding itself "instead of making the employer do it like in other countries".
bobtassoni (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It seems Reid thinks taxation is voluntary because you get to fill out your own confession form under duress of being charged with failure to file. After all, you make voluntary contractions of your skeletal muscles to fill out the form, so it must be voluntary, just like slavery was, since they moved their own muscles in fear of the whip. Maybe it would take the government directing your movements by firing off electrodes in your brain before Harry Reid would concede that taxes are involuntary.
volvol1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Reid does seem a tad silly here. In once since the US does have a "voluntary" type system, but only in a meaninglesss technical sense. Obviously people are not given a choice of whether or not to pay taxes.
scdecade (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Harry Reid really comes off like a mental patient. You can't reason with him because he's crazy. But it's too wearisome to keep arguing and he's too aware of the power trip to simply throw him into a padded cell. So far at least. He's pathological. It's not enough to simply engage in violent acts. For people with his mental condition it's important the victim embraces the tormentor.
WhiteShark392 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"We have withholding here too don't we?" "Huh?""Withholding?""With some programs yes."Yes, with some programs - programs like getting a paycheck.
WhiteShark392 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Taxes are voluntary just like getting raped is voluntary. You really do have a choice - but if you choose not to you get punched in the eye and taken anyway. But there is a choice...I guess.
winterus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
War is peace, slavery is freedom and taxation is voluntary.
JakeandElwoodBlues (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Fuck you Harry Reid.
chillinator (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
fjfjvmvm, obviously, you're a Socialist - which means you're either pathetically lazy, don't understand the purpose of Law, or both. The things you mention can also be provided through charity - and probably much more efficiently than under the burden of bureaucratic waste. The only "childish perspective" here is yours. The US wasn't built by Socialists - but it's being destroyed by them. Read "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat - you can read it online for free (which should appeal to you).
chillinator (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
No - you're wrong. The Fed is a private corporation - and while it DOES control our government to a large extent, it's not controlled by anyone other than the central bankers who make it up. It's no more "Federal" than Federal Express, Federal Pest Control, Federal Way Pizza - or any number of other businesses with "Federal" in their names. They named it that way so that people would THINK it was part of the US Government - and it apparently works... on some people... |
