The Political Thread.

[Anonymouse]

Okay, since this has long been in the making and desired, I think this is a perfect opportunity to launch our forums very own political thread. We have an insult thread for crying out loud, we might as well have the political thread.

This thread can discuss a variety of topics about or relating to politics and spilling over into the history of the politics. You can feel free to discuss the left vs right, who is right or wrong, why does it have to be just the left or the right, the corruption of the two party system, the war on iraq, america's foreign policy, the nature of americans current state of government, etc., etc., and I'm sure you all know the rest.

So I have an open question. Why do I pay taxes?

[jahannam]

i guess so that your retirement is guranteed?
you won't have to work until the day you die?
anang paner 8)

[jahannam]

I got a question...
don't you guys think Hillary Clinton's running for president is straight out cheesy?

[surferarmo]

Hillary running for president is straight up cataclysimic. If she runs, I will have to get crazy.

[jahannam]

lol
do you say that cuz she's a female?
cuz that wasn't the highlight of my question

[surferarmo]

lol, no. that isnt even the issue if she is a woman, and I dont know why you would waste my time by bringing it up. She is a loser, and if you have read her humurous memoir, and looked at her medical plan, you would understand why having her as president would be disasterous to the nation. Pick another candidate please, man or woman, as long as they are qualified.

[Anonymouse]

i guess so that your retirement is guranteed?
you won't have to work until the day you die?
anang paner 8)

What does the income tax have to do with my retirement? If you mean social security that was only a later artificial add on to it during Roosevelt.

The implementation of the odious income tax in 1913 is what I'm getting at. So why do I pay taxes?

[surferarmo]

Anon, I have the same question. You should ask a Democrat.

[jahannam]

so surfer.. what does shang hye think about that?
yalla go.. switch back 8)

[surferarmo]

I will answer your question more seriously with this. I believe that all social programs are regressive in their aim, and do not work in practical, and real circumstances. It is a way to dock you of your hard work, so people that are lazy, and apathetic can benefit from your toil. Democrats imposed such taxes. But here goes a quote on the office I am looking at my work.

"If we run such government debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mis managers to account; but be glad to obtain the subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers."

--Thomas Jefferson (my hero)