White House Gives In On Bush-Era Tax Cuts

so the Boy Scouts(a Mormon Organization) getting funds from the US government and other benefits is sinful and tyrannical.

you really are an ignorant *** waste of oxygen aren't you?

Universal Health care
Social Security
Medicare
Foreign Aid
Playing world police
Welfare
Affirmative Action
Federal Bailouts

How long should I go on?
People want to pay taxes and have access to these programs? Fine, let them sign up for them and pay those taxes.

Like Jefferson said, don't take my money to pay for programs / activities that I don't believe in.

They boy scouts getting money from people that don't want to fund them is tyrannical.

Just because you want to try and point out some sort of "feel good" application of taxes doesn't change the root of the problem.

It's the price you pay for society guy, if you don't like society, don't live in it.

I wouldn't want the U.S. to give money to any religious organization.

the thing this guy doesn't understand is that while the item I stated goes along with T.J's belief, while his does not, basically because he doesn't understand the word "propagation" and to be honest it doesn't surprise me.

edit: and yeah, the Boy Scouts receives federal kick backs, and they ban gay's and atheists... Started in the 80's iirc (not sure) *** had a special on it.

same here, but I was trying to prove a point, not say that funding the BSA (*** up group) is a good thing, because it isn't.

Taxes take away rights?

hit the presses, we have a live one. :O

Portrait of a very sad, very self-loathing, very guilty, very unintelligent person.

By getting up everyday and going to work, and doing my job, and spending my money on goods and services I need is the price I pay for society. A tyrannical government that takes from the people to fund whatever they feel like funding is not the price of society.

Damn, glad I wasn't here from pages 11-14. You guys just made sure which sides each other was(Republican or Democrat) and just blasted each other based on that. No wonder the country's debt toll grows and grows, you defend a platform that doesn't work simply out of hatred for the other platform. Neither party has been cutting it, people. We have to stop caring about these *** parties and start caring about economic responsibility.

Taxes are the price you pay for society, not what you do to make a living. I'm sorry that you're this delusional, maybe you need to seek medical help for your brain, because you obviously need it.

yeah his brain definitely doesn't belong in this era, maybe 3000 b.c.

Having a different view of society and life does not make me any of those things.

Just because what's important to me and what I believe to be true don't in anyway match up with what you believe doesn't make me wrong, and it def doesn't make me sad, self-loathing, guilty or unintelligent.

Sympathy =/= Intelligence

Jefferson isn't alive and didn't know ***about the world of 2010. Don't read into quotes.

1. There is no Universal Health Care. The goal of the public option was to bring down the rates of private insurance companies by creating artificial competition via the public program. It also made it so less money was spent on people who had no insurance. This means you're spending less money on people who don't deserve it.

2. Social Security was designed as an economic saftey net to prevent the economy from bottoming out. You see without SSI people who retire would STOP SPENDING MONEY and hoard. When you stop spending money you hurt the economy. Social Security provides a way for people to retire but still stimulate the economy. Guess what pays for the federal budget? Taxes on the economy.

3. Medicare is another example of spending policies designed to avoid stagnating the economy.

4. Foreign Aid? Like what? The .0000001% of our budget that we donated to Haiti? Are you *** serious? We got that money back in national security. Donating money and sending aid made us look good in the international community and bollasters our support from other states.

5. World Police? /facedesk. We engage in combat with other countries only when it is in our vital interest. If you don't think the war in the middle east is in our interest you're really blind. Hello oil? We can not afford to allow that region to fully destablize. It would *** our economy.

6. Welfare. I agree with this one to an extent. However, wellfare is largely a state by state issue these days, and generally they require you to work a job. I know you'd rather let people go poor but if you sat down and thought about how the economy works then you'd realize that the money spent into limited wellfare programs stop people from doing devasting things like defaulting on loans and screwing people over.

7. Affirmative Action: There is no statistic proof that Affirmative Action in any way, shape, form, or abstract imagination harms a white man. You act as if there are limited jobs and colleges in the country. Really? REALLY!? What makes you think you're anymore entitled to a job than an equally qualified black man? What makes you think that you're even equally qualified? If a black man has a 4.0 GPA and a college degree and he grew up in downtown Brooklyn then he has COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY OUT PERFORMED ANY WHITE SUBURBAN KID. Accomplishments are defined by the obstacles you overcome not by the things you do.

8. Federal Bailouts. Ok so wallstreet pays for about 95% of our taxes, and employs about 50% of the people who work in America I think bailouts are fine. Furthermore we have already recovered money from AIG and several of the other industries. Projections show that we will not only make all our money back but we will make substantial profit.

My suggestion to you:

If you completely hate every aspect of society and want every man to live according to your means then go join a society that does that. Oh, that's right that's an Amish town. America is no longer an agarian nation where people can say, "Oh *** I'll just make it myself". The computer you're typing on right now is a product of society. The job you work to pay for that computer is a product of society. You sure as hell don't see smart enough to invent a computer or start a company. QQ more.

Go barter then. No one is forcing you to use the government issued currency.

Taxes are the price you pay for government to look out for you, not for society. You pay taxes to ensure that government looks out for you. Some people want government to harbor a military for national security, others want the government to "protect" you by giving you food stamps when you can't work for yourself. Taxes aren't what you pay for society.

Wow something from Excelior that I'm impressed with, anything can happen.

Um, yeah they are. But it all comes down to how you define it, so meh.

I'm fine with paying taxes for the things that I believe in.
National Defense, Police, Fire, Hospitals, Infrastructure, etc.

Using my taxes to fund things that I don't believe in is not my price to society.

Also, stating I am in need of medical attention because my ideals are different from yours? What kind of backwards *** draconian thinking is that? "Oh no, someone thinks differently than I do, there must be something wrong with him." Seems like you are the one that needs to catch up with the times.

Ok so your stance on society is that we should do whatever you say and agree with whatever you think. I see. Dude you should work for Kim Jong Ill.

Thing is guy you don't get to decide what your tax money goes to, nor is it your place to. Your mind is set to a time that isn't the world today, you do need mental medical attention, and it's regardless of how or what I think.