Originally Posted by Robbie

The Kennedy's got rich from BREAKING the law and running liquor.

The Hearsts made their wealth in the 1800's. Before income taxes and before federal highways (that were created by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950's to be able to move tanks and heavy military machinery quickly throughout the country)

Point is that ALL people who were rich in the early days up until the beginning of the 1900's got that way in our country despite the govt. and not because of it.

Police and firemen are paid by city govt. which gets it's money from people actually paying taxes in the city (mostly homeowners). Poor people don't pay an awful lot of that. They don't have any money.

I think those arguments about all the "wonderful" things the govt. does to make our lives so much better do have merit. But put all the highway work, police depts. and fire depts all in a big pile...and there's no way in hell it costs TRILLIONS of dollars that the federal govt. spends like drunken sailors.

I can't believe you can't see that. If all we had to pay for was our countries highways, etc and essential services, we could drop the tax rate to almost nothing.

But they are occupying over 200 countries with our military. And the pentagon is wanting to spend more and more on big weapons systems that are pretty much useless against "terrorism" (whatever that is). And the congress is ALWAYS in session making new laws and spending trillions of dollars on shit that is NOT highways, policemen, or firemen, or infrastructure.