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Originally posted by Spanky
So the rule is a government should cater to your language, and if it doesn't, you don't have to pay taxes? So when I was living in Japan, should I have refused to pay taxes because the tax forms were not provided to me in English?
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You're the one who brought taxes into this. It's
your sense of entitlement that's at issue.
You seem to think that you should have the right to demand documents be only in English because you're a
taxpayer. But other people who pay taxes but speak another language?
Fuck them.
I'm actually in favor of a strong English education in our schools. I think ESL courses are not taught correctly. But this statute doesn't address that. I think that learning a passing level of English should be a requirement for naturalization citizenship (oh wait - it is!). This law doesn't address that, either. Instead, it's almost wholely symbolic.
This
is a non-issue. But
somebody thinks it's important, and I'm pretty sure those same people (or their kids) are going to be the ones bitching the loudest when Spanish becomes as widely spoken as English in this country.
