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luckyleftyme2

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1. heres a little more
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 07:06 AM
Aug 2012

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To put it in perspective, a local saw mill pays property taxes every year whether they make a profit or not. The same is true for a hardware store, car dealer or bakery. During the lean years Old Town Canoe paid its property taxes. They adapted. Wooden canoes are still made in Maine, but there are thousands of kayaks made for every wooden canoe."
so here we have two people from the same party with different views.
the real answer is that without taxes we probably wouldn't have a literate society.
you see if you read the bible taxes have existed since man formed communities.
And their has always been those trying to dodge theirs knowing full well that their neighbor would have to pick up the slack.
I guess humans aren't perfect!

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