The ethics of citizenship

[smoothmoniker]

Originally posted by marichiko

If you guys think its so great, why the hell aren't you willing to do the honorable thing and pay taxes like everyone else?

As Ayn Rand wrote, "Check you premises."

You can't be serious. Who the hell do you think pays for the system? The guy down the block making 30k a year? The guy at Ralph’s Grocery bitching that his company won't pay for his medical insurance?

It's me, people like me, and people with more money than me. What I pay in income taxes covers about 8 people in disability, according to your numbers. How's that for supporting the system?

I don't like it, I don't think it's right, but I sure as hell do it. You can hate me for being successful at what I do, you can hate me for creating jobs for other people because of the risks I took early on, but you CANNOT accuse me of not paying my fair share of taxes.

Asshat.

-sm