Are you speaking from experience? I doubt your stats. The bottom line is it just depends on what flavor kool-aid you get forced down your throat. Show me an institution that teaches free thinking. Probably not good for your child either. Free thinking like free speech is not looked upon favorably by those in power and likely to be in power. Better if they are automatons spouting the state rhetoric. Here is some reading material for you: Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, and for you sci-fi fans, Mission Earth series. The things in those books will never really happen, though, will they? Heck, they are happening now.
GOP, DEM, it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care what color you are either. I live in a community where the lion share of the population is on some kind of welfare (call it what it is). It is only a helping hand if people ever intend to make a living again. Sadly, to me anyway, most of “these people” (ALL races) consider welfare their living. I’m 48. I remember a different America. You can tell me that times are better now, and maybe they are for a few people, but not the general population. I know better, I’ve watched it fall apart. Based solely on the longevity of my family, I might make another 20-30 years. If this next generation doesn’t use me for food or burn me for fuel. Or just get rid of me so that they can have the resources I’m using. Do whatever you want to your world, why should I try to stand in your way? Your all much too smart for me. I’ll pray for you, though most of you are Godless and won’t appreciate the gesture.
Everybody wants this perfect system that does not and cannot exist. A health care system that denies no one and costs no one and everybody gets the same equally excellent care. People study for years to be health care providers. I had the grades and the time. I didn’t want any part of it. I guess if people were compelled to do things based on apptitude testing at an early age, and then compelled to provide these services for the same days wage that everyone else receives…a system like that just might work.
Darkeforce, you are not accurate.
Income taxes didn’t start until 1862 (to support the war effort).
These taxes didn’t exist 100 years ago:
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
Business License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
Interest Income Tax
IRS Interest Charges, IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Taxes
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales and License Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
From 1791 to 1802, the United States government was supported by internal taxes on distilled spirits, carriages, refined sugar, tobacco and snuff.
So, Tim, your strips make me believe that you are from the new church of atheism. It is not enough that you don’t believe, you must convince everyone else how smart you are and that they should not believe either. Two people were just gunned down in one of our local businesses by people who believed only in themselves and their ability to survive. Nothing to fear, no God to punish. This is what I see when I think of JL’s song “Imagine”.
Are you speaking from experience? I doubt your stats. The bottom line is it just depends on what flavor kool-aid you get forced down your throat. Show me an institution that teaches free thinking. Probably not good for your child either. Free thinking like free speech is not looked upon favorably by those in power and likely to be in power. Better if they are automatons spouting the state rhetoric. Here is some reading material for you: Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, and for you sci-fi fans, Mission Earth series. The things in those books will never really happen, though, will they? Heck, they are happening now.