Taxation, is it even necessary?

[dimpy.handa]

So many people don't pay taxes that frustration or even fury don't even come close to describing my opinion. Taxes aren't fair. Take that as the opinion of someone who pays taxes. However, my mother-in-law feels taxes are fair. She goes further in believing that "rich fat-cats" are getting richer while everyone else just gets screwed. She's never paid a solitary penny in taxes in her entire life. As a single mother living on welfare and food stamps and government cheese, she and her family sucked the government tit for decades. My mother-in-law thinks we should raise taxes on the "rich", and trying to discuss the effects this might have on an already disastrous recession would be met with a kind of confused look, followed by yelling.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

Private mercenaries, hired by the US government, are a significant part of the war against Iraq. Rich US companies, if they needed to and were allowed, would hire mercenaries to protect their interests abroad.

The US has never needed to fight a war, which puts a burden of proof on those who say a strong federal military is necessary. Even if it were argued that our strong military has prevented the US from ever needing to fight a war, militarizes don't exist to protect the people, but to protect the leaders and to enable the aggression of the leaders. What does it matter if one government or another is telling me what to do? Given the condition and direction of the US, there isn't much left to defend, anyway.

Most Americans have little interest in tax cuts. Both the rich and the poor make money off of big government. The middle-class is misdirected from recognizing their tax burden because taxes are collected in such a stealthy fashion, such as through withholding and inflation.