My God this is stupid
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Would Ed Brown ("They're prepared to lose,"Monitor, June 12) prefer to live in a society ruled by anarchy, where the strong get what they want? How about we go back to the vassal system, where we toil our lives away being ruled by an overlord of some sort?
Well, we currently live under a vassal system. Just because the overlords are ellected democratically doesn't mean we don't have overlords. I'd say having a third of your money confiscated at the point of a gun from Government sort of forces people to toil their lives away paying tribute to their overlords.
Look at the big picture is what I say to him and others who share his beliefs. Our federal taxes are funding the government so it can in turn help us out.
What has the Federal government ever done for US. Start wars? Prevent private charities from providing food and shelter to homeless? (See FEMA) Give money to politically connected corporations? Force mothers into poverty lifestyles by making them dependent on welfare hand-outs?
Regardless, New Hampshire sends more money to the fed then it gets back from it every year, and that's after 70% is taken off the top during the round trip by all the bureaucrats and pencil pushers in between.
I work for the state of New Hampshire, and we get hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money every year to help with everything from health care to the very roads that lead by Mr. Brown's house. It would be impossible for New Hampshire to cover the costs of maintaining every road, hospital, school, etc., that federal funds help support.
I think you'll find that if NH citizens got to keep their money the NH government would be able to afford to build those roads all by itself. And Many of the roads that are currently built aren't needed but are nothing but pork baralling. And our health-care system is crap (I need to edit that a bit) precisely because it is so socialized, and the Federal Dept of Education has so many mandates now it's almost not possible to teach in the government schools anymore.
You're showing your true colors Mr Rhodes. You like the fact the fed steals 30% or better of our income in various ways because it's job security for you. Perhaps it's time you learned out to make a living by engaging in volentary exchange and mutual cooporation like the rest of us, instead of simply being a harpy for the State.
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If anybody wants to take that, edit it, and submit that to the Monitor. Be my guest. Just submit it under your name. I don't want to be accused of carpet bagging being an out-of stater and all.
Tracy
