Elected Libertarian brings change to county politics

www.lp.org ^ | 4 17 05 | J. Daniel Cloud

[DManA]

Think strategic. Free a whole segment from a tax, they no longer care about it. Their voice won't be there to balance the relentless pressure to increase spending. Spending skyrockets. We are worse off than before. Where's the progress?

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

If they government didn't sanction marriage, how would they know who to hit with the marriage penalty come tax time?

Rammer, the government should just go back to treating people like individuals when it comes to taxes. That would simplify a lot of stuff.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Think strategic. Free a whole segment from a tax, they no longer care about it. Their voice won't be there to balance the relentless pressure to increase spending. Spending skyrockets. We are worse off than before. Where's the progress?

Government actions are being balanced closer to being paid for by those who use them. That is progress.

[Rammer]

I agree, I was being sarcastic.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Yes . . . heaven forbid that those benefitting most from a service bear the burden of most, if not all, of that service's cost.

See my #36. What you described is not what's going on here.

[truth_seeker]

"Libertarians would probably say the government has no business in marriage anyway. You don't need a license (government approval) to have children, why do you need one to get married?"

I don't get "...probably say..." ???

Is the answer similar for methamphetamines, "...probably..."