[ale] unusual global warming experiment

[Jim Kinney]

Heh, heh. Nice. Communities are a good thing. Change is not always bad or
good. In general, taxes do benefit all of society. I hope to never use the
fire department but I like knowing it's there. Same for ambulances,
courthouses, military, school systems, water supplies and space shuttles.
Without any of these we would be far less than we are now. That's why so
many people want to come here. We just need to find that balance point
between personal freedoms and personal responsibility compared to societal
needs and responsibilities.
I love this place! :-)  Best place with the greatest opportunity to do the
greatest good.

On Feb 11, 2010 11:03 AM, "JK" <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:

On 2/11/2010 8:37 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:

> Jim Kinney wrote:

> so people living in Douglasville that work in Austell would have to
> effecti...
You don't think people in Douglasville would benefit from an overall
increase in the quality of life in the ATL metro area?  Less-crowded
roads (whether they're using them to commute or just to play), less
pollution, more greenspace?

Do you also think that it's unfair to fund education from the general
pool of property taxes -- that parents should pay directly for their
own kids' education, because obviously educating kids benefits no one
but the kids?  I guess we should all be responsible for our own
fire-management too -- I've never used the fire department, why
should I have to pay for it? </snark>

The no-government-no-taxes folks should try living in my close neighbor
city, Cd Juarez Chihuahua, for a taste of what it's like when government
services are slim to non-existent; and those that exist, endemically
corrupted by free-market forces.  It is not at all a nice place.


-- JK


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