Quote from: Cowdude on March 07, 2011, 07:27:13 AM
People like ZIP don't get it.  At a certain point you have a taxation that is confiscatory.  When the people are being raped by the very people that are there to "help them".  Contempt is bred. 

ZIPPERHEADS or ZIP, in this case, don't understand that there is not an endless supply of money.  My social security retirement age has changed 4 times since my first payment.  Should I be upset with that?  Sure because the system is broken but not fixing it is just another sign of denial and liberal ignorance...

Kurt

Good points, Kurt. I disagree with your use of "confiscatory," however. I know that it's popular to use the term to describe tax rates that are extremely high, but any tax is by definition a confiscation of wealth by the state under threat of armed force. Thus every tax (IM not-so-HO) is "confiscatory." Perhaps something like "blasphemous" or "cataclysmic" or just "insane" would work better to say what you're trying to say...  :P :P :P

It's funny about zip and the way he sees some things. You brought up his apparent belief that state governments (for example) can (and should, he says) just dump truckloads of money into nice things for "the working man." But at the same time, he treats the whole thing like it's a "zero-sum" game. ("Governor Asshole stole the pension money and gave it to his fat cat buddies.") I'm not sure how it can be both at the same time.

One of those things I'll have to consult with zip about, I guess...