re: Dear Lord, the entire debate is who will raise taxes the most

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Are you trying to say we shouldn't have taxes at all

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I'm saying we should take a long hard look at government bloat and waste before we start taking more money from people.

And yes, I believe specifically income taxes are theft.

Increasing income taxes is just increasing theft. Plain and simple. You can try and argue and justify it all you want but it's theft.

I understand property taxes and to an extent sales taxes. People living in an area should fund governmental public goods for their area such as police, fire, education, etc... I even understand state taxes to a certain extent because we are a nation of states and we should support our own states.

But a 40% income tax that goes directly to the federal government to do with it as they wish? As far as I'm concerned that is indefensible theft. I work roughly 5 months out of the year for free as all of the money I make goes directly to the federal government.

Our federal government is wildly out of control and over funded and full of waste and bloat. The solution is not to dump more money into it. It is to slash it down.

My first step would be to eliminate the ability for taxes to be taken out of your paycheck. Every citizen should have to write a check at the end of the year to the government. That would make a ton of people more active and aware of what the go is doing with their tax money.