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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 08:38 PM
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An idea for politicians who hate taxes: they should forfeit their salaries
I'm sick to death of these pandering, oh-so-pious, smug, self-righteous politicians who rant and rave and moan and groan and scream and sigh about taxes and get their brownshirts all whipped up against any and all taxes (and afterwards said brownshirts still expect all the services taxes provide and bitch when they don't get them). They then vote against programs that make life bearable for so many of their constituents, including any health insurance coverage issues, even though they themselves have the best insurance benefits package available and all kinds of other perks as well.

Well, here's a question for those fuckers: WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOUR SALARY COMES FROM???? HOW DO YOU THINK YOU GET PAID? Sure, it's easy for you to vote against all kinds of things to help people, including the middle class you love to extoll, and to lecture about how many social programs, including any kind of nationalized health care, are "socialism" when you have the best health care and other services available COURTESY OF THE VERY TAXES YOU RANT AGAINST AND CLAIM ARE SOCIALIST.

Meanwhile, the people who desperately need the help you so patronizingly and contemptuously dismiss are the ones who pay for your generous salary and your fucking perfect health care, etc., etc., THROUGH THE VERY TAXES YOU RANT AGAINST AND CLAIM ARE SOCIALIST. So why, then, don't you practice what you fucking preach and forfeit your salary and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps like you're always demanding of everyone else WHO PAY YOUR SALARY THROUGH THE VERY TAXES YOU RANT AGAINST AND CLAIM ARE SOCIALIST!!!
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 09:27 PM
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1. They should also not use libraries,
drive on roads, listen to broadcast media (airwaves licensed by FCC), drink tap water or flush the toilet, watch or listen to weather reports (based on NOAA data), buy food or medicine (inspected by the govt.), ride on airplanes (flight plans approved by FAA), etc.

Oh wait, they already don't use libraries. Well, that's one step in the right direction.

Don't you just love these dumbasses who say they want everything privatized? Would they care to adopt a streetlight in their neighborhood? How about repaving a five-mile stretch of road? And I guess they'll be sending a big fat check to the district attorney in their town and state, holding a bake sale for the prison, donating a portion of their income to insure bank deposits, home-skooling their kids (or sending them to some white-flight private skool), sponsoring a law enforcement officer, etc.

Fucking morons.

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