thumperclone wrote on 01/02/16 at 21:42:07:am I a socialist?
Would that be so bad?... (rhetorical,.. I'm sure, not)...
Taxes are better used, helping people, than hurting them...
I think that's called socialism...
As an atheist follower of the teachings of Jesus...
I believe he would approve...
Regardless,... my best to you, and your wife...
Speedy healing to her, please...
What shape would we be in now,... if we had spent $billions$ helping modernize, and enlighten, the Arab world... rather than $trillions$ blowing them up, and killing them?...
Iraq,.. was perhaps, the most progressive, and modern, state in the Arab world...
We spent money, we didn't have, under false pretenses,... degrading that...
"You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar"
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I digress,... from Thumper's OP...
The taxes I regret having to pay,.. are the one's that make things worse, rather than better....