What do you think?

I did not construe a contradiction. That statement is a contradiction of itself. You are saying that what you earn is yours, except that portion everyone else says isn't. How does that make sense? No amount of logical rationalisation can make it so.

It depends on your personal view of my statements. Personally the only misconception of anything that I may have stated is on your part.

Now, our "fair share" of taxes go towards charity. We ARE being forced to share the fruits of our labor with others who do not contribute by working for their wealth. We are paying for food stamps and section 8 housing. Sorry, but that is taking from us, forcefully, to give to them. This fair tax or fair share crap is insulting. You are right that humanity has been taxed in one form or another through out recorded history. Taxes are the price of living in a society with a strong enough government to keep the piece and protect individual rights. The mere fact that it is forefully taking from us to help others is a sign of a broken government in a messed up society. If I want to help my neighbor, I will in my own way. As it is, the governemnt taxes me, tells me it is to help my neighbor, thus I don't feel the need to help my neighbor anymore because the government is doing it.

Maybe you should consider moving to another country where the peace and individual rights are not so well protected as here in the USA and the military is more likely to kill you than protect you. I gladly pay my taxes for this type of return.

Your last statement is a real cop out. Something that a liberal would possibly say.

If I told you Marx coined the phrase capitalism, what would that tell you? Why would we be using his terminology when he was not from here, and completely against what the founding of this country was about? Your arrogance and ignorance are showing.

Here again, you may consider relocating to a country where capitalism does not exist. It seems to be working very well here in the USA regardless who coined the phrase. Which by the way, could have had a completely different meaning in Carl Marx's day & time.

Any idea who Adam Smith is? Ever heard of the book The Wealth of Nations? Where the idea of a free market was published. It discusses how the invisible hand in the free market makes corrections when the economy becomes unhealthy. It provided a blueprint for the original US economy that became the wealthiest economy in the history of man in far less time than any other economy. You know, before the government got involved and changed it to a socialistic economy where central planning picks winners and losers; what we have now, where we are all taxed in every manner plausible from income, sales, sin, and even inflation tax. The economy we have to day is not what this country was designed upon.

Without taxation of some sorts please explain how the infrastructure of this country would survive and prosper? Are you possibly one of the 99%'ers or maybe consider the Occupy Wall Street movement a positive move for this country?

You don't know your history do you. Stalin followed Marx's teachings to create communism. Adam Smith's teachings where heavily applied to the creation of our nation's original economy , which in turn molded our society. You are right about Hitler, he followed his own teachings.

I suppose with no form of taxation either.

And yes, history is one of my more read subjects. I normally deal in reality and avoid the hypothetical ramblings and teachings of the less educated and improperly informed who delve in the world of "what if" .

Speaking of "you shoulds", learning to use spell check may help make your presentations and preposterous ramblings a bit more easier to read and understand.

At this point, we must agree to disagree regarding these matters for I feel that you have gotten your panties wound up in a very tight wad over some trivial differences regarding how we fail to see eye to eye on certain subjects and issues. To my knowledge my peers and constituents do not consider me to be the least bit ignorant, and maybe a tad arrogant at times when I am in a mental conflict with a unarmed adversary. So for now and in the future I will gladly continue to pay my taxes and enjoy all of the freedoms which our Constitution provides us as well as the protection that our military, law enforcement, and other public services which are largely funded by our tax dollars do as well. I hope that you can do th same. My contribution to this discussion has ended.

Bubba J