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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
Date: 21 May 2024 01:02:14 -0000
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I am okay paying my share of taxes, as long as everyone else is paying their
>> share too, and I used to think most people are like that.  It's definitely
>> different from place to place.
>
>If you think taxes go towards a good thing, why would it change your 
>position if others pay or don't pay? Your money still does good.

Because I am human, and humans get resentful when they feel like they are
being treated unfairly.  (Lazarus Long had something to say about this.)
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."