Anyone else horrified their tax dollars buy death?

[overgrowthegovt]

Personally, whenever I think about it, it disgusts me. Some rifle my taxes bought probably is responsible for some Afghani civilian's brains splattered across the street as we speak. Either that or some new anti-drug propaganda is being paid for.

overgrowthegovt Reviewed by overgrowthegovt on 02-11-2009. Anyone else horrified their tax dollars buy death? Personally, whenever I think about it, it disgusts me. Some rifle my taxes bought probably is responsible for some Afghani civilian's brains splattered across the street as we speak. Either that or some new anti-drug propaganda is being paid for. Rating: 5

[MaryJaneMonkey]

Yeah it sucks, whats worse is that the tax the govnt steals from you.
Look up the irs, most people who worked there quit, and reported what they saw on you tube: no law stating we have to pay.

What happend to the good old days of taring and feathering the tax collector, and fighting for are freedom. Why is this country so paccified???

[FreshNugz]

Yep, couldn't agree more. I really hope we'll be out soon. Though of course its a bigger clusterfuck now than it was when we all arrived. I'm waiting to see what will happen come 2011, when Canada is supposed to end its mission. With all the new pressure being exerted there by the US, and Harper still in government, we'll probably end up along for the ride.
One can only hope that somewhere there will be some benefit from this.

[overgrowthegovt]

Yep, couldn't agree more. I really hope we'll be out soon. Though of course its a bigger clusterfuck now than it was when we all arrived. I'm waiting to see what will happen come 2011, when Canada is supposed to end its mission. With all the new pressure being exerted there by the US, and Harper still in government, we'll probably end up along for the ride.
One can only hope that somewhere there will be some benefit from this.

I hate how our media calls it a "mission" so the Canadian people won't think of us as being at war and can sit comfortably on their asses.

The only difference between our pulling out in 2011 and our pulling out tomorrow will be that in 2 years' time another few dozen of our young men, and however many Afghani civilians, will be dead. And, of course, we'll be billions of dollars poorer. All to impose the Western agenda on the world's dissident nations. I'm ashamed to belong to the Western world a lot of the time.

[Breukelen advocaat]

If Afghanistan's Taliban leaders had handed over bin Laden and his cohorts after 9/11, they probably would not have been invaded in the first place. They (Taliban) were totally uncooperative. Many aspects of this war were handled all wrong by us, but something needed to be done. Instead of attacking Kabul, and other cities, we should have pattern-bombed, or nuked, the mountainous regions where Al-Quada operatives and leaders were holed up.

[Mississippi Steve]

Personally, whenever I think about it, it disgusts me. Some rifle my taxes bought probably is responsible for some Afghani civilian's brains splattered across the street as we speak. Either that or some new anti-drug propaganda is being paid for.

<sigh> such narrow minded thoughts... Your tax dollars go to a whole lot more than just weapons for the military. Personally, I take comfort in knowing that my tax dollars are going to pay the salaries of our military, and supporting their families. These are the folks that defend your right to freedom of speech.

Before you get your panties in a wad, I am 53 years old, retired military, a business owner(paying both personal and business taxes), and have a whole lot of lifes experiences behind me. Come talk to me in about 10 years after your out of school.

[the image reaper]

<sigh> such narrow minded thoughts... Your tax dollars go to a whole lot more than just weapons for the military. Personally, I take comfort in knowing that my tax dollars are going to pay the salaries of our military, and supporting their families. These are the folks that defend your right to freedom of speech.

Before you get your panties in a wad, I am 53 years old, retired military, a business owner(paying both personal and business taxes), and have a whole lot of lifes experiences behind me. Come talk to me in about 10 years after your out of school.

I couldn't agree more ! :thumbsup: ... next time you 'weeping pacifists' are in danger, call a hippie ! ... our military protects your rights to be ignorant :smokin:

[painretreat]

We all live to pay taxes to death!

My concern is, here in (at least Calif.) our taxes are going up and up! The day will come when a social security check will not pay your property taxes.

More horrified that people can't afford to pay their taxes! PR

Like, get an IRA or 401k, after most is lost in the stock market, when you do decide to pull it out for use, the taxes will be higher then than they were when you earned the money, if you have any left! ever think of that?

[McDanger]

We all live to pay taxes to death!

My concern is, here in (at least Calif.) our taxes are going up and up! The day will come when a social security check will not pay your property taxes.

More horrified that people can't afford to pay their taxes! PR

Like, get an IRA or 401k, after most is lost in the stock market, when you do decide to pull it out for use, the taxes will be higher then than they were when you earned the money, if you have any left! ever think of that?

That is why there is a Roth, you pay the tax up front instead of when you pull it out.
Wait till the stimulus hits the fan, taxes will have to AT LEAST double. Federal Gov't debt will be 13% of the total output of the whole USA, worst in history.
Thank you Barack Mugabe.

[overgrowthegovt]

It is not "narrow-minded" to be aware of the fact that the Western world wages war for its own self-serving agendas and feeds the public shameless propaganda about "defending our freedom" and so forth. Defending the oppressive global status quo, more like.

All the U.S. or Canadian military personnel do is waste billions of dollars on killing people halfway across the world so Haliburton can get a nice juicy contract over there, so it irritates me to no end that their undeserved salaries will be coming out of our pockets (I "support the troops" by advocating that they be brought back home in one piece, before it's too late).

As for 9/11, it was of course a horrendous spectacle, but it has been argued by some (notably Ward Churchill, who was basically tarred and feathered after that) as the natural and inevitable response to decades of raping the Middle East. The deaths in the two towers are nothing compared to the unspeakably evil carnage wrought over there. I mean, seriously, the U.S. initiates countless explosions and incidents of civilian death over there, and then acts shocked and appalledwhen it gets handed back to them.

Mississippi Steve, I acknowledge you as my senior but ask that my views (based upon reading and worldly knowledge) not be automatically dismissed simply on account of my youth. I'm vastly more intelligent than any of my grandparents, so age is really only the most rudimentary guideline.