Lyle (Silent/Boomer)

We all get a bit tired of paying taxes especially when the taxes are added to taxes such as value added tax on things like tires. Get out your pen and paper and start listing all the things you pay an annual tax on, your house if you are fortunate enough to own one, or at least be making payments on one, ditto on a car, or a recreational vehicle or a boat. If you have livestock even though you may keep them on someone else’s land you will pay a tax for having them, same goes for your dog or cat, I am not sure about exotic pets but I would guess there is a tax on them as well.

   In other countries you can be taxed on the number of doors you have in your home, or the number of windows, how wide your house is and you can be taxed for having a television and the list goes on. So taxes are nothing new and they are not going away any time soon because for the common good we need taxes to be paid to take care of all manner of things that makes life easier and more enjoyable.

   There are things that seem to be exempt from taxes. One is religion as churches are not taxed and the contributions made to churches are supposed to be deductible. Now when this idea was brought forward it  was supposed that by keeping out of church business the community government would be able to function without the church interjecting religion into the social environment without being asked . We currently have churches getting public support without making any public contribution.

   The other item on the agenda of not paying taxes on but costing taxpayer money is guns. This is one item that does not get hit for a tax renewal every year. The 2nd amendment seems to allow for every person regardless of mental ability, temperament, or for any other reason to have a gun or guns. In some states there are no laws about caring those weapons and there is no accountability of these weapons. More effort is made to keep track of a woman who might try to get an abortion than some idiot that might shoot up a school. This is of course do in no small part on the feeling that the fetus has more rights than  a living breathing person and the attitude that we will protect the fetus until the feet hit the ground then it is on it’s own.