Argument I'm having on Facebook: hey, conservative friend, let's help you get around paying taxes!

[calimary]

Ray: And your taxes will be so high you will never afford healthcare again!
10 hours ago · Like

calimary: Ray! Hey my friend, I just had a FANTASTIC idea! Let's help you make one of those flying cars. That way you can travel around town without using any roads. Those are paid for, paved, and repaired, through taxes (which your side hates). The only problem is, the airways above us that all those other flying machines use is all pretty well organized and regulated - so we'd have to help you navigate around that somehow too. That effort has of course been bankrolled by taxes. Maybe an orbital vehicle then?
7 minutes ago · Like

calimary: You should DEFINITELY grow ALL your own food, because using food you'd buy at the market - well, that market pays taxes, and charges them on nonfood items you'd also buy there. And the food they sell has all been inspected - that involves tax money, you know. And we're well aware you're not fans of paying taxes. So let's help you get around them, okay? And of course you'd need your very own water well or something, because the public water systems, including what comes out of your tap at home - well, taxes help ensure that this water is clean and its infrastructure is maintained. Can't have that then, either.
7 minutes ago · Like

calimary: You'd probably have to hire your own security guards, though - since calling the police for something involves those dreaded public employees your side resents so much. I mean, heaven forbid your house catches fire. More of those dreadful public employees would be scurrying around your private property at will! ICK!
6 minutes ago · Like

calimary: See, taxes have been so badly misrepresented over the past few decades - as something that only takes away. No one ever bothers to think WHAT WE GET FOR OUR TAX MONEY. But please make no mistake - NO ONE on our side ever claims there isn't waste. So absolutely, you monitor closely and streamline so the tax money coming in from all our participants in this country is used as wisely and efficiently as possible.
4 minutes ago · Like

calimary: But there's been NO on-going emphasis on the common good. And how we ALL benefit. There's been precious little emphasis, for example, on all the ills the Affordable Care Act has addressed, done away with, and fixed, to protect ALL of us from being ripped off! Hey, Ray, even my conservative friends are forced to concede that health care (ESPECIALLY!) should NOT be a for-profit affair. No one should be able to make a buck off your health or mine. Because then you really do get those "death panels" miz sarah was squawking about in 2008, only it'll be the insurance INDUSTRY, the businesses, the bean-counters, that decide whether you live or die - THEY will be the death panels. Oh wait ... we already have that. THAT is what the Affordable Care Act is designed to prevent, or at least circumvent. Health insurance and health care should be a public utility.
a few seconds ago · Like

I think we all ought to start approaching taxes a little differently. TIME FOR THE GREAT NATIONAL RE-EDUCATION.