Firefighters Watch as Home Burns to the Ground

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

75 dollars a year isn't much, but there should be a law that they'll still save your house, but give you a bigger bill if you haven't paid.

It's bad for the town's economy to let a house burn over seventy five dollars.

IT'S LIKE

          oregon's education budget!

IT'S LIKE
         extortion

How is a voluntary tax for a service any more extortion that what most of us pay as a required tax for the same service?

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

These people need a new God.
One that actually shares their lack of values.

Damn that has been stuck in my brain since I read it!

[Doktor Howl]

These people need a new God.
One that actually shares their lack of values.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

75 dollars a year isn't much, but there should be a law that they'll still save your house, but give you a bigger bill if you haven't paid.

It's bad for the town's economy to let a house burn over seventy five dollars.

IT'S LIKE

          oregon's education budget!

IT'S LIKE
         extortion

How is a voluntary tax for a service any more extortion that what most of us pay as a required tax for the same service?

The required tax pays for services that are available to everyone, including people who don't pay taxes.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

75 dollars a year isn't much, but there should be a law that they'll still save your house, but give you a bigger bill if you haven't paid.

It's bad for the town's economy to let a house burn over seventy five dollars.

IT'S LIKE

          oregon's education budget!

IT'S LIKE
         extortion

How is a voluntary tax for a service any more extortion that what most of us pay as a required tax for the same service?

The required tax pays for services that are available to everyone, including people who don't pay taxes.

Yes, but that makes it no more or less extortion. Besides, everyone pays taxes (or registers that they don't make enough income and thus get covered that way).

I don't like the scenario, but the horror (for me) lies in the individual humans choice not to help their fellowman. As the fire dept is all volunteer, I'm happy they're putting out all the other fires without getting paid for risking their life. I don't see the need to exaggerate the situation into something monstrous or extortion. IF they were gonna let people burn in there, then hell yes it would be monstrous and extortion.  As it is, I'd say its regretable and it was sad that these individual firemen allowed their chief to cowl them into not helping... but making it sound like the Mafia is just crazy.

[Doktor Howl]

Yes, but that makes it no more or less extortion.

So change the constitution.

[Adios]

Yes, but that makes it no more or less extortion.

So change the constitution.

We still have that old thing?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Yes, but that makes it no more or less extortion.

So change the constitution.

Huh?

[Doktor Howl]

Yes, but that makes it no more or less extortion.

So change the constitution.

Huh?

Taxation is written right into the constitution as an allowed government power.

If you think it's a criminal act (extortion), then you should try to change the constitution, because right now it's legal.

[Adios]

Yes, but that makes it no more or less extortion.

So change the constitution.

Huh?

Taxation is written right into the constitution as an allowed government power.

If you think it's a criminal act (extortion), then you should try to change the constitution, because right now it's legal.

Of course without taxes I suggest traveling by horse, since the roads are likely to be pretty shitty.

[Don Coyote]

Myabe people should stop thinking of taxation as extortion or "DA GUMMIT TAKIN MAH MONEYZ" and view it as giving to charity.

[LMNO]

Or "being patriotic".  If you love your country so much, you should be proud to help keep it running.

[Doktor Howl]

Myabe people should stop thinking of taxation as extortion or "DA GUMMIT TAKIN MAH MONEYZ" and view it as giving to charity.

Or just part of functioning in society.

[Doktor Howl]

Or "being patriotic".  If you love your country so much, you should be proud to help keep it running.

The Roman patricians had a saying, "On me rests the state", concerning taxation.

By contrast, we have a pack of fat bastards who don't actually pay income tax (in any significant amount), crying that the big bad gubmint is putting the arm on them.

[BabylonHoruv]

Or "being patriotic".  If you love your country so much, you should be proud to help keep it running.

yes, this.  The "patriot" movement seems awfully hung up on the no taxation part of no taxation without representation.