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Old 08-16-2006, 10:14 PM   #263
MaggieL
in the Hour of Scampering
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DanaC
The 'voluntary' aspect of taxation comes in when we as a country vote not to remove them and to continue providing support where needed...
Yes, there's that collectivist first person plural again. Of course there's more than one "we" in this equation...there's at least the "we" that pays taxes, the "we" that doesn't, and the "we" that makes money from the whole transaction.

And the "we" that votes.

All non-identical, but fun to blur together in rhetoric.
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