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Originally Posted by The Unfan
This is probably the most intellectually dishonest thing anyone has ever posted. Emphasizing personal rights while creating programs to protect those rights is not a contradiction. The reason taxes exist is to create mutually beneficial programs and secure our liberties. Trying to get rid of government involvement based on the idea that you don't want to lose 2% of what you make in government spending to allow you to have any liberties at all is outright stupid. We are the government, the government is us. The government is by people, for the people and the security thereof.
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What is the right you are trying to protect by creating these programs? Where do rights come from? How do you determine what is a right and what isn't? Do you believe in a hierarchy of rights?
If the right to liberty is being protected then you can't use force to take away liberty because that is a contradiction. If that 2% is such a small amount then why wouldn't you just let the people pay that percent freely?
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Leftists want people to not reap the benefits of their work?
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The price for work is artificial if there are taxes and such involved. You can't reap the benefits of your work when the price for it is artificial.