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Originally Posted by armor99 Because no one.... no matter how great their personal need might be, has the "right" to take what I have earned for myself.

But they have a right to try within certain bounds, right? They can try to sell you something. They can hold you responsibile and liable for something you disagree you should be responsible and liable for and win a settlement in court nonetheless. They can use legal business tactics to compete with you and put you out of business. They can draft you and send you to fight a war that does no good for you personally (with reinactment of conscription legislation). They can take advantage of supply - demand situations and gouge you on prices for items you must have to live. And they can use the political system to create taxes that appear to take from you and redistribute to others........... The list is infinite.

You seem a little naive regarding the distinction between your personal life, your business life and your political life. Despite what we might like, they are not distinct but rather strongly interrelated. In the same way that a business competitor seeks to put you under and acquire what you have on favorable terms, political competitiors seek to create laws and codes which work to support them and their way of thinking rather than yours. You are free to fight against this and to the extent things are not as you would have them, you are losing the battle.

While you may learn from the discussion here, with your uncle and other places, eventually you need to roll up your sleeves and pitch in to make things the way you want them to be. Otherwise you're just stuck on the losing side just like if you fail in your career or in business or in some aspect of your personal life.

So...... yakkity yak here on the subject for a little while, then go get busy. Things are the way they are because you haven't done anything about it. Just like the welfare recipient who won't go get a job, you're guilty of not being active in the political system in a way that causes things to be the way you'd like to see them. Stop whining. Stop waiting for someone else to take care of things for you. Get up out of your desk chair and get to work!