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Those who wish to avoid paying taxes should leave the country
by Letters to the Editor:published: Mar 23, 2005
Along with our rights and freedoms as Americans come responsibilities. Taxes are both a community responsibility and a patriotic duty. They represent an investment in our country, in our present, and our future.
If past taxpayers had not performed their duty, we would not now have a highway system to enjoy. Neither would we have programs that protect our safety, our health, and our environment from unscrupulous corporations viewing our nation as theirs to pillage, plunder, and pollute. Without taxes we would not have fire, police, garbage collection, and medical services in many regions of the country. Without taxes, education would be available only to those able to afford it, science would be lingering in the backwoods, and technology would be nowhere. And of critical importance also, there would be no safety net for the underprivileged or folks who have fallen on hard times due to sickness or events beyond their control.
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