[QUOTE="Laihendi"][QUOTE="Yusuke420"]
I disagree with that entirely, children don't WANT to be orphans, people that lose everything because the factory that Dad has worked at for thirty years of his life don't WANT to be on the street and hungary. Life has unforseen circumstances for many people and to ignore that fact in favor of accumlating and sitting on endless wealth is greed at it's finest. People don't want a handout, they want a HANDUP. I have known homeless PHD holders and rich idiots so it's not purely about having a try hard, can do attitude. Sometimes you just need some help and I hope one day your faced with a situation that your money or your influence can't fix and we shall see then if you are willing to do something that to you is an unthinkable sin, ASK FOR HELP!
Yusuke420
Demanding is not asking. The government does not ask when it collects taxes to fund welfare programs. The money is taken with the threat of a gun. If you refuse then they arrest you. If you resist arrest then they attack you. If you defend yourself then they shoot you. None of what you said is relevant to my point. If you do not respect a man's right to his money, then you have no consideration for him and you have no right to criticize him for not being concerned with "others" (not the others he is concerned with, but the others you are concerned with). Tax aren't just collected to fund welfare programs, it is an aspect of the entire scope of the government, which is how this nation is governed. To say that you don't want to pay taxes is the same as saying you don't want any access to the benefits provided by for those said taxes. Also Lai have you considered that there are tax free organizations that you could back what would protect your precious money from said taxation? If you donated you charity it would also exempt that portion of your income from taxation as well. So there are plenty of avenues to use if you are trying to avoid paying taxes. That being said why is money the only thing that is important to you?Why is money important to me? Why is it important to you? You are the one demanding that others give it up to fund your social causes.
So you think that money is the root of all evil? . . . Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which cant exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honoryour claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?
Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motionsand youll learn that mans mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of mans capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is madebefore it can be looted or moochedmade by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he cant consume more than he has produced.
Francisco dAnconia
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