Sadly there are lots of persons who hate paying taxes

[malaise]

and pretend to hate government - what they want is to loot and plunder at home. They don't give a flying fugg about any part of the Constitution except that interpretation related to their guns and they want power so they can siphon off the Federal and state taxes and spoils of others. Many are common thieves so They are part of Don the Con's 'deplorables'. Ali Baba and his 40 thieves are rank amateurs to Don the Con and his posse.

They aren't winning shit.

[saltpoint]

1. Good look at a pretty sorry bunch of voters.

If it's true that nobody likes excessive taxation, it's more true that taxes and fees pay for various necessary social services. If we want children to have safe sidewalks to walk on to their excellent public schools, there have to be some taxes.

Are Republicans since Nixon so opposed to government that they would have kids walk in the street, or never learn math or science or how to write a story?

I'm almost afraid to answer my own question.

[malaise]

2. THeir leaders' and funders' kids don't walk in the streets

and they don't give a flying fugg about their ow supporters

[saltpoint]

3. Yep. And they prove it again and again

in the candidates they back. Sometimes I forget to be thankful that I'm not one of Grover Norquist's kids, if Grover Norquist has any kids. That would be a bleak existence.

There's a petty, low-down-ness to the ultra conservative view of drowning government in a bathtub, because whether their own kids walk to school or not, other people's kids do. And those kids' safety is more important than the Republicans' selfishness.

[benld74]

4. To people who DON'T want and HATE paying taxes here's an idea

The government has land for sale.

Buy some
Do the old homestead routine.
Build your home
Put up your fence
No sewers
No lights
No EMS
No roads
No doctors
Do it.
And quit your crabbing.

[mnhtnbb]

5. What pisses me off is the inequity in paying taxes

Example: When Romney can take a $75,000. deduction for a horse as "therapy" for her ladyship,
but we have a son in grad school--where we contribute living expenses-- and we can't take ANY deduction for
that because he makes slightly more than the $6,000 threshold from work-study grant support? Who the hell can live
on $6,000 a year?

The goddamn system is rigged. Why else would Trump not release his tax returns?

It pisses me off royally those who have the most are able to game the system to contribute the least.

I do not mind paying my fair share. We moved to a town in NC that levies additional property taxes to pay for public schools.
My kids took advantage of it. We could sell and leave now that our kids are no longer needing the public schools. But I consider
it important to help support public schools. So, here we are--paying much higher property taxes than surrounding communities-- even though our youngest graduated high school in 2008.