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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

I think the whole discussion should be moved away from taxes to spending.
It is very easy to sing the reduce taxes song or the Your taxes are too high
refrains.  No one likes to pay taxes.  I spend a small amount of time
looking at future purchases and the sales taxes of the states I am passing
though.

What we should be doing instead is questioning how the money is being spent.
Do we really need to spend all that money on fighting the drug war against
Marijuana?  Do we really need to spend the exact same amount on all three
military services?  Do we need to spend federal money for a hometown museum,
or a bridge that benefits only a few campaign donors? The list goes on but
that is much harder than saying "cut taxes."

We all have different ideas on what the Government should provide but we all
have similar biases against paying taxes.  

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html