> Maybe we are not doing a good enough job of promoting civic duty, including payment of taxes? If you're a strict old-school limited govt jeffersonian type, a

> Maybe we are not doing a good enough job of promoting civic duty, including payment of taxes? If you're a strict old-school limited govt jeffersonian type, as many farmers are, fighting income taxes and avoiding paying into federally mandated systems is your civic duty.. not saying I agree with either side - but pointing out that notions of 'civic duty' are not so cut-and-dried