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This is my biggest problem with socialism is that the government
becomes the bank of the citizens, except the peasants
have little control over where their money goes. This
is how it works. Hillary promises to give healthcare
to every poor little child and their parents (so she
raises taxes to pay for it). Hillary promises to
clean up the environment (so she raises taxes).
Hillary promises this, promises that, and gives this
and gives that. Hillary gets very popular. Then
Hillary figures out that she controls the military and
most of the wealth, and quickly realizes she can
literally conquer the nation. Piece of cake. Tax and
spend, tax and spend, and then just tax, and then
conquer. Then the people get no healthcare, they get
China's clean environment, China's wages, and a whole
lot more of exactly what we don't want. No thanks. I'll take
capitalism, where we all get to be greedy, rather than
just a small group of elitists who get to do that.

The government is not the church, and "public servants" are not servants at all, but masters. Taxation is robbery - literally - and it just goes downhill from there.

Anyone who expects their tax dollars to be spent wisely is delusional.

Wow! Unbelievable nastiness. DN editorial strangely overlooks the massive corruption in high places. The underpaid, overworked public employee is small potatoes compared to the Tiltons and Noels and other legislators who slurp at the public trough in the millions and billions. I gladly pay taxes to fund America. I don't believe those who say taxation is robbery are patriotic at all. They are the delusional ones.