I'm voting Republican

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by Radar

I do pay income taxes. I always have. I only do so because it is extortion. I don't pay them because I actually owe them. I pay them so I don't have to get into shootout with people coming to my house to TRY to take my shit.

I think you've missed the point here, but your explanation only reinforces what we already know anyway.

I've asked you this before and you've never answered, but let's try again just for the record.

If you're against paying taxes, how do you expect the military (even the mystical one that lives in your head) to be funded?

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I think you've missed the point here, but your explanation only reinforces what we already know anyway.

I've asked you this before and you've never answered, but let's try again just for the record.

If you're against paying taxes, how do you expect the military (even the mystical one that lives in your head) to be funded?

I didn't say I was against paying taxes; just income taxes. Did you know that before we had an income tax, we had roads, a military, a judiciary, a legislature, and all of the other Constitutional parts of government.

Right now income taxes don't even pay for our military or any part of our government. They go just to pay the interest on all of the money the government has borrowed in our names.

If income taxes were removed entirely, we could fund 100% of the Constitutional parts of government with only the tariffs and excise taxes we already collect without raising them a single penny.

We would have to reduce the size of our military so it was large enough to carry out the common defense of our own country and not stick our noses into every dispute on earth between other nations, we'd have to eliminate all parts of the federal government not enumerated in the Constitution like Homeland security, FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, BATF, BLM, FCC, Foreign aid, welfare, medicare, social security, federally funded education, etc.