8182skush, you wanna talk about taxes? I make 13,000 dollars per year in my only contract, and I get taxed at more than 10% to the IRS, I just paid $2400 for a yearly property tax, my car tax is around $100, I pay 8.25% sales tax on all non-grocery items I need, $0.50 cents on each gallon of gas I use to go to work. I do have some debt I'm working on clearing up, but here I am unable to buy food and I'm paying taxes out the wazoo. For lunch and dinner today I ate hash browns and french fries that my housesitter left in my freezer when I had to go visit some family. What do I get for all these taxes? A war in Iraq which I can't see any benefit from, the roadways which aren't toll roads yet, and mail delivery (Although even that should technically be paid for independently of government funding, but I don't believe that for a minute). So tell me we are not taxed too much.. ! As far as descending into fascism, most people don't care because no one does anything that any dictator would ever want to restrict. Even Hitler would let people watch football, eat wurst, and drink beer as long as they were in the right class. The only difference is that we now realize that everyone's money is equal, so racial discrimination is just impractical. If most people enjoyed intellectual exercise..... whoo boy, we'd see some rollin' and shakin' in this country. Thankfully the schools have done brainectomies on all the students so they won't have to worry about all that stinky-thinky. Remember, a freeman is just like a slave except you don't have to whip him. He'll whip himself for you with a smile on his face, and thank you for giving him dirty water. His shackles are imaginary, but he refuses to imagine a rasp.