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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
For my own part, I don't mind paying taxes. There's always a twinge when I look at the bottom line and see how much it was, but then I think about the roads I drive on, the nice people at the firehouse who need gas for their trucks and hoses that don't leak so they can put my house out if it ever catches fire, the garbage and recycling service that comes by every week, the library, and the schools, and I realize that taxes are how I buy civilization.
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Apolgies for minor thread hijack........
Totally seperate issue but did you know the entire amount of Income Tax collected by the USA federal government each year, goes directly to the Federal Reserve Bank?
Sounds reasonable right?
Did you know the Federal Reserve Bank is a privately owned institution?
Did you know that the way your system works is that your government borrows money from the Federal Reserve Bank to run your country and then uses your Income Tax to pay the money back, including interest?
So now ask yourself........why should you be paying interest to a privately owned bank for services like those you mention? Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to simply use the money collected for those services rather than borrowing the money for the services and then having to pay back the amount borrowed and the interest? Btw, being a firey myself it is nice to be acknowledged!
One of the Rothschilds brothers once said........."Give me control over a nations currency and I care not who makes the laws". Now think about the state the USA is in now and ask yourself who really runs the country? The banks or the people?
The above doesn't even deal with the legality of collecting income tax. Have you ever asked your member of parliment to show you the actual law that states you must pay income tax? Try it one day. It has been done before. In fact a group(can't remember the name of it now) went to court over it trying to force the government to show them the law. The governments argument in court was that it was not the responsibility of the government to inform every citizen of the law but rather it was the responsibility of the citizen to make themselves aware of their responsibility under the law and therefore they should not have to show the actual law to any citizen that asks to see it. The governments position was upheld and they didn't have to actually point out the law requiring a citizen to pay income tax. Wouldn't it have been easier to simply show the law? Doesn't it make you wonder why they didn't just show the law?
There is quite a bit of interesting reading out there about the issue if you are interested.
Cheers,
PKFFW
Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread............