I realize that everyone has a different opinion on politics and religion and I hate discussing those two subjects with people just because I won't be changing anyone's mind nor will they change mine. Since I'm mostly out in left field with opinions I'm usually in disagreement with everyone.
Last night I saw my neighbor outside and said hi to him. We started talking about how it was going; he'd had some tough times for a little while but then again he and wifey give kids everything under the sun and then some. The house is completely packed with stuff that they buy, but I digress.
I'd simply made a comment about the possibility of my hubby retiring due to a mess with our county (he is a county health nurse) and my gosh, my neighbor went off about taxes. Taxes are too high, there should be no taxes, no health care for anyone, no social security, nothing.
I'm always puzzled with people start advocating a very limited government. Would we like to give up the Social Security, building protections, consumer protections, education departments just so we could eliminate taxes? Then what would happen to our roads? Our infrastructure? Free education? My neighbor is convinced that the tax money for everything has been misused, so not doing anything at all is going to help? Of course he only repeated the no tax mantra when I asked how the infrastructure would be fixed.
Maybe I'm naive but when our farm was going down we had to let our health insurance go. This meant we did not go to the doctor for anything even though my husband had a high rate of melanoma in his family. I wasn't so stupid as to think that we could raise money by having a yard sale. We didn't pay taxes throughout this period. Well I'd rather pay taxes any day because it means I'm making money!
I'm not an expert by any stretch but I just think Haiti and Somali when I think of no oversight at all on anything. What do we really want for this country? I want a lot more good than selfishly keeping every penny I make.
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