[PLUG-TALK] Re: Col Co.

[AthlonRob]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:01 -0800, Alan wrote:
> Rural counties are "anti-free ride" unless it is their roads and
> services that they want paid for.
> 
> Rural counties use much more tax dollars than they generate.
> 
> My phone taxes have been going to upgrade your phone service since
> before I was born.
> 
> Not to mention the cost of putting roads out to the middle of nowhere
> and keeping them free of potholes.

Free of potholes?   ;-)

Most state roads going places outside of Portland actually go places...
places with thousands of people in them.  You might try driving them
sometime.  :-)

I'd be willing to pay more road taxes and live with fewer well-kept
roads if it meant I didn't have to pay as much to support fiscally
irresponsible government projects.

> Conservatives can bitch about how much Liberals spend when they actually
> start spending less than the Liberals do. (Not to mention figure out a
> way to pay for it.  "Fiscal responsible Conservative" is a fiction.)

Perhaps you're confusing the term 'Conservative' with 'Republican' ?

It's a common mistake.

> Why is it Socialism when government spends money to help people and not
> Socialism when we kill them, yet the money comes from the same source?

I don't believe we're helping people so much by giving them everything
for free.  

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