For me, much of this comes back to a person's historical perspective which, I submit, begins the day that person is born. I.e. people who've lived with an income tax all their lives, assume it is necessary. Many times those same people don't even research enough to realize that this nation existed for well over 100 years without an income tax. In fact the income tax is less than 100 years old as of this writing.
While I understand the government needs to be funded, I question the manner in which we fund it and the logic that our government is empowered to take from anyone it so chooses. I further question the logic that so many people subscribe to; that some people have too much and don't have a right to that which they've earned.
I come from the perspective that I have no more right to take from my neighbor through taxes as I do through theft. But that is what so much of taxation is; voting to take from my neighbor because he has more than me.
Additionally I am disgusted that people jealous of those who EARN a certain amount want to TAKE more from those people. I say; how much is too much? And aren't earnings what we want from a productive society? EARNINGS are not "ill-gotten gains."
Just so commenters of this blog know, I am a business owner paying myself less than $40,000 per year and with everything I own on the line. But I DO NOT begrudge those who earn more than me. I applaud those who've achieved greatness or great financial success.
Again, I have no right to take from others that which I have not earned. It is as simple to me as "thou shalt not steal."
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