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Old Oct 3rd, 2004, 01:26 AM        You know what I think would be neat?
If you could include consciencious objection in your taxes. Like, I think Thoreau was just a cheap-skate for not paying his, but what if we could specify that we want the money we pay to be allotted anywhere except the war in Iraq, et cetera? It wouldn't make any difference unless such a huge portion of the country has such leanings, in which case it SHOULD make a difference.
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Old Oct 3rd, 2004, 02:44 AM       
What made you dream this up?
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Old Oct 3rd, 2004, 02:48 AM       
Must be the pills.
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Old Oct 3rd, 2004, 01:34 PM       
Well the way the system is set up, our conscientious objection to politicians choices in taxes is supposed to be voting for a certain politician, so in a way it's in-built.

*Many persons have attempted to argue this to the Supremes and that's their answer*

If you're asking if we received a ballot every year with a list we could check off saying "I don't want money to go to this" that might be interesting b/c all the money saved not going to that would probably go to administrative fees just to implement that voting.
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Old Oct 3rd, 2004, 02:29 PM       
It makes the system too unreliable.
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Old Oct 3rd, 2004, 05:27 PM       
People would have to be smarter and thus better educated. I'd be scared to put so much more power into the hands of marketers. Think of all the boring, regulatory jobs no one thinks about, like mine inspectors (I'm getting that from a recent article I'd post if I could remember where I saw it...) that would cease to exist for at least the first year...

Wait... I like this idea.
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Old Oct 4th, 2004, 04:37 PM       
If you were self-sufficiently living out in the wilderness what, exactly, would you be paying taxes on?
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Old Oct 4th, 2004, 05:37 PM       
That was a bit out of the blue...

My Guess: The privledge of being able to do so unmolested.

Basically, it's protection money.
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Old Oct 5th, 2004, 10:35 AM       
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Old Oct 5th, 2004, 10:55 AM       
Just charge me a carnivore tax and I'll pay the government in pelts and back-strap.
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Old Oct 5th, 2004, 01:32 PM       
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If you were self-sufficiently living out in the wilderness what, exactly, would you be paying taxes on?
Wasn't Walden technically city property or something like that?
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