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Kids and politics
Rughugger:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 25, 2009, 09:45:05 PM ---wat
This country has always had taxes. It was just that the British taxed us without parliamentary representation.
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Yes, but there was a period where we weren't a country and had to work off of nothing more than donations from sympathetic powers. There was no taxation then.
Inv3rted:
wat
The colonies paid taxes to the British and their local governments.
Tom:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 25, 2009, 09:38:02 PM ---Taxes. We all pay for each other in our times of need.
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If where gonna make everyone pay more, why not just require them to have there own health care?
Rughugger:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 25, 2009, 10:31:39 PM ---wat
The colonies paid taxes to the British and their local governments.
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Until they decided they didn't want to anymore and form their own country.
Inv3rted:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on October 26, 2009, 10:30:06 AM ---Until they decided they didn't want to anymore and form their own country.
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They still paid taxes to their local governments and then the USA...
--- Quote from: Tom on October 26, 2009, 08:20:20 AM ---If where gonna make everyone pay more, why not just require them to have there own health care?
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Because not everyone can afford it, but everyone has the right to it.