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Originally Posted by The Walrus
I'm almost positive it'll be about having the freedom of choice whether to lend your mate money or not, rather than having it forceably taken from you. Which, fundamentally is a fair point, freedom of choice is important. However, I agree with what Jim said about society pulling together to help out those less fortunate ... without redistribution of wealth, they'd be guaranteed pretty much no freedom of choice, whereas those who are taxed are only surrendering part of their freedom of choice of what to do with their money
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on another board i post on someone went on a rant about how it should be upto him whether he wants to fritter his money away on harley's and designer jeans (ironically both twatish and token needless branded materialist items)
i dunno about you guys but i manage to pay taxes and also have a bunch of cash left to fritter away on needless shit like overpriced bikes and bits of denim...
we pool our resources to pay for streetlights, the cops, the fire brigade and we don't turn round and say you don't pay taxes so the cops aren't coming when you get robbed so i really don't think we're at liberty to say we're not going to help you out if you lose your job or you get sick and can't work.
adrian i wonder what you're thoughts are on the fact that it's VERY well documented in sociological studies that crime is mainly the result of poor socioeconomic circumstances. since you're an advocate of gun rights and protecting ones liberty etc... don't you think providing less opportunity for criminality to exist is a good idea?