[Kaj]

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RP: Religious institutions should be more important than government

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Nutty statement


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RP: I want to abolish the Dept of Education

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Amazing from someone who benefited from it!


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RP: I want to abolish the IRS

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Yeah, all infrastructure is or should be free.


That RP guy sounds like an absolute nut to me! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Midge,

Take a moment to think about what you wrote. Why is it "amazing" to want to abolish a national agency just because it may have impacted you? Of course it may have impacted you, that's because it's a national institution which doesn't ask if you'd like to volunteer to donate or participate as part of its cause, but forcibly collects from you and then mandates educational policy (to some degree) on your local schools whether you asked for it or not. So does that mean it can never be abolished? An institution's mere existence means it is immune from debate about its continuing relevance? You really don't see the circular logic here? And of course, that's all assuming the US Dept of Ed "benefits" your local school, which is at least debatable.

Also, you do realize that the US government was able to collect revenue to operate before the IRS was created in its present form in 1953 and previous forms dating to the US Civil War? The statement "I want to abolish the IRS" does not imply "all infrastructure should be free". Especially considering it is arguably better left to state and local governments to provide state and local "infrastructure".

Your post does little to help your anti-RP cause. It inadvertently adds a great deal of ammunition to the anti-Midge cause, however.

I say this as someone who is occasionally sympathetic your posts,
Kaj