Reply #8: So, basically, the things YOU don't make use of should be taxed? [View All]

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Lovely. You were trained to fix things? So was I. Good luck applying the knowledge you learned fixing your old '87 S-10 towards fixing your 2008 Civic. Hybrids? Even more complex. There's a reason there are schools now to train auto repair technicians.

Golf and amusement parks are the provinces of the rich? Have you been to an amusement park? The rich don't go to them; middle- and working-class families do. As for golf, I doubt the wealthy citizens are the ones out on the public city courses that cost $10 a round.

Why do single out NASCAR for sporting events? Do I even need to ask? I've been to one. The wealthy sit in the air-conditioned luxury boxes. Everyone else is out in the 100 degree heat in the stands. Taxing those luxury boxes is fine. Punishing people for getting entertainment after they've said up for a few months to afford the ticket in the first place is not.

As for vet services, would it be better to let those pets die?

Your argument, despite trying to throw some bones about "socialism," is nothing more than elitist, regressive-taxation garbage.

And, by the way, care to explain how giving away public property to private citizens is somehow "socialist"? How many people would be living in the middle of the Nevada desert? Or ANWR? Would it be OK if people assigned land in Montana started clear-cutting? Or drilling for oil?