Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for February 07, 2022

Right. Who needs roads, military, teachers, police, firefighters, jails, water systems, and the Internet, anyway.

No one does. Give an inch, gov’t takes a mile. Taxes are necessary but grotesquely inflated.

Seeing as how they just print as much money as they feel like, why have taxes at all?

I think Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. had the correct take on this.

Give me liberty or give me bacon!

Especially in democratic controlled cities and states.

Representation? We have representation?

If the USA would tax churches at the rate it taxes business it would pay for food stamps for everyone on welfare with enough left over to house their entire homeless population. But they have to buy flying turds like the F-22 and F-35.

Misrepresentation.

The real issue in much of this nation is: “Representation without Taxation”!

The problem is our so-called representation doesn’t represent us but instead their corporate sponsors.

It all depends on WHAT is being taxed and WHEN. When IRA (Individual Retirement Accounts) accounts were first being offered in 1974 I started one. It seemed a good way to save for retirement, even for a 20-something, as I was at the time. I don’t understand the DEMAND that I withdraw funds from my account every year through an RMD (Required Minimum Distribution) – added to tax law in 2019. This distribution is taxed – I always knew that anything I withdrew from my Traditional IRA would be taxed – but that I would be forced to withdraw was quite an unwelcome surprise.