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Originally posted by taxwonk
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: I enjoy paying taxes: with them I buy civilzation. Anyone who views this as socialism and as a moral wrong is either too simplistic in em's thinking, or being sollypsistic, or just plain old fucking stupid.
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However, we can disagree on how much of our own resources we wish to pay for the common weal - we can disagree about building a new Lawrence Welk museum, or paying megabucks for rapid transit of limited use - without being stoopid. What you consider a valid use of my money may not make me nearly as happy as it does you. You might wish to see a $1000-per-person tax just to cover, say, medical research. I might want to see that same amount spent on research on kayak design. The consensus - or, more accurately, the average amount seen as appropriate by all voters - is where we end up, and that amount crawls back and forth across the continuum as political leanings sway.
