01-12-2009, 09:32 PM
Quote: Some people get most of what they pay into (federal) taxes back the next year.
Those are people who overpaid their taxes to begin with, and they're merely getting a refund on the interest free loan they'd floated to the government for the previous year.
Quote:to a time when there wasn't government funded public school for you to send your children, or government funded police and fire departments.
Yet another example of someone taking "smaller government" to mean "no government". Two different things that make up one discussion that has been explained to death in this thread.
And yes, I agree - money is SUPPOSED to be backed in gold. We've gotten WAY too far from that.