Re: sassy/Education in America
Was the tax rate a matter of negotiation between you and the seller, as well as the nature of the services you would receive for them, or was someone else involved in those decisions? Did the seller have the option of selling you the house without making you pay any taxes at all? If not, then what "choice" would either of you have had if you did NOT want to pay taxes? You don't really understand how "choice" works, do you?
No, my choice was to decide to live in that school district, or to live in another one with less taxes. Don't you understand how choice works?
Of course I do, apparently better than you do. In fact, I asked you several questions (repeated above), and you even included them in your own post. Yet you only seemed to be answering one, and it's not clear which one. Was your "no" in response to the last one, the one about understanding choice? (That would certainly be honest.) If not, which question were you answering? And were you stumped for an answer to the others? And if you understand choice so well, here's another. Why shouldn't someone have the choice of selling something they own to a willing buyer, without anyone else (including government) having any claim on any piece of that transaction?
And while we're at it, there were a couple of other questions you ignored:
Do you believe that if someone can afford something, it's primarily a matter of luck, and has little or nothing to do with actually having worked for it?
Do you share mikkj's & indy's confidence in the unselfishness of the majority?
(Yes or no will do.)
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