Right on wingstich!

See, TJ says we don't have to fund King George W's war... ;-)

Right on Jason! His case is more for "freedom from responsibility" than "and"... and Donald is "oh so clever" (NOT!).

Ah, but there in lies the rub... what is "absolutely necessary"? Education and health care seem far more "absolutely necessary" than to support a "generational war" that was started on lies.

Your income is there to allow you to meet your responsibilities... including support of the common good via your taxes.

I can see it now, folks who think it is ok for the state to kill will also agree that taxes are "immoral"... little wonder we are living in a declining society.

... without taxes we would become a feudal society again... oh, wait a minute, that is just what King George W wants... oh, then we must do it...

Capital punishment is when the state commits murder! Anyone who equates mire taxation to murder is sick.

we are the government, we elect those who make these laws... the solution is not to demand no taxes, but rather to demand a clean election system! Any system that "elects" the crowning of the likes of King George W is clearly broken. Fix it and all the rest will naturally flow to correctness.

As someone who grew up in a home with a full time working father and part time working mother and yet was still on food stamps and welfare, attended an Ivy League school on government grants and loans, and who now gladly pays very substantial taxes to both the state and federal governments, I can personally say "hog wash". King George W is the thing to fear, not taxes or social programs.

As someone who grew up in a home with a full time working father and part time working mother and yet was still on food stamps and welfare, attended an Ivy League school on government grants and loans, and who now gladly pays very substantial taxes to both the state and federal governments, I can personally say "hog wash". King George W is the thing to fear, not taxes or social programs.

Right on Robert! Word counts prove nothing. The US Constitution is clearly ambiguous on many of its points, and almost immediately needed an update (Bill of Rights), which have turned out to be just as ambiguous. The bible are the writings of men where we learn that inconsistency is the word of man ("God is vengeful" and "God is forgiving"). The tax code is so complex as to be itself incoherent. So its a "lose/lose/lose" statement.

Anti-tax pro-big business folks seem to forget that they get rich only through the existance of society (otherwise we'd all still be living in caves and trading flint knives). It is reasonable for society to expect (and recieve) a tax on those profits which came from the benefits society has used past taxes to build for all to use. And on top of that, every human should be able to have a core level of income that is "tax free" to provide for their basic needs. To those who need according to their needs, from those who have according to their ability... it is what Jesus would do.

King George W has a new plan: crush them by taking from the poor and giving to the rich, while spending money we don't have by borrowing from other countries who we then label as "the enemy"... such a plan...

Indeed, some would even go to say that to question is the answer!

True, equity is much more achievable than true equality, but this is exactly what most speakers mean when they use the term, so the quote is still worthy. By helorat's argument no written word is protected, nor are pure vocalizations such as singing, just "speech"... again, not what was ment or how these rights are interpreted.

None the less, King George W & his hench men should be compelled to tell us of their inner thoughts & motivations so we can all understand the heart of the evil that lives and grows inside of them... and root it out... Impeach!

Dreams are just that... dreams... this does not mean that you should put your dreams into action, or that others should allow you to implement "bad dreams", but none the less, you should be allowed to dream them... no matter what they may be. Even those who do not understand the difference between dreams and reality should be allowed to dream... but never to implement.

Losers might pretend to believe this, but freedom is much more than making do...

Perfect, that is just what many radicals want... to be heard... take the best ideas from any source they come from, to do otherwise is to "cut off your nose to spite your face", eh? (yup, even Joe's ideas ;-)

Then King George W has won thru our inaction... down with the King!

The "war on drugs" is a farse, and the "war on poverty" is long gone with a loss, replaced by a "war on the middleclass" to line the pockets of the rich with more riches taken from the middle class and poor. If by "war on abortions" you mean what Clinton told us (rare, safe and openly/freely available), then that makes perfect sense. Alas, I fear most here think it means something like another of King George W's wars (botched, controlling, and only for the rich by going offshore).

... because that is the antitisis of "society", we are beings of societal relationships, and that by very definition means that there is a series of trade-offs between the individual and the group. We are no longer grunting solitary hunters (well, most of us are not), we are now grunting social cavemen... ;-) So, it is not a matter of "leaving everybody else alone" but rather of "respecting others".

The two are truely orthogonal...

Perception is everything... we only know that which we can comprehend, based upon our past experiences.