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It may be a smaller amount, but it is voluntary. Paying taxes is not voluntary.

• ekianjo 13y ago
  It's as voluntary as taking a shower everyday. I don't consciously think about where the product comes from when I buy stuff, especially when it comes to commodities. If you start doing that you can't buy stuff anymore and you have to grow your own stuff yourself and stop trusting everyone else on the planet :)
  • samolang 13y ago
    > If you start doing that you can't buy stuff anymore and you have to grow your own stuff yourself and stop trusting everyone else on the planet :) That's exactly my point. If you're assigning blame for something the US government did to someone because they paid taxes, then you can pretty much assign blame to everyone for everything. Oh, you went to Stanford during the '90s? Well Rice was provost then, so you helped pay her salary are therefore responsible for the deaths that occurred in the Iraq war. It's absurd.
    • ekianjo 13y ago
      I think you are extrapolating vs the original point. I was answering to : > Uh we have all killed indirectly Well, Rice has been certainly much more 'directly' involved in killing that the ones who paid taxes.