Taxes... what are they good for?

Quite alot actually. Taxes pay for your roads and bridges. Taxes pay for the sewers and water manes. Taxes pay for your firemen, police, and army. Taxes help fund the schooling of your children so they don't grow up ignorant (provided you get involved and don't let them ignore their schooling).

Taxes are NOT your enemy. Without taxes, there would be no government. Without government, there would be anarchy. And the human mind is not capable of handling anarchy.

So what exactly is the problem?

Since President Obama has taken office, we've received money back. He didn't even raise the taxes on the rich like he said he would.

But today we see this ridiculous behavior...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/tea.parties/index.html

What exactly are you protesting precisely? Nothing that I can see. Future taxes? Well people, those haven't even happened yet so they're all imaginary.

Lets take a look at the causes of the original Boston Tea Party, shall we?

High taxes without Representation. That's the whole cause. And yet, the people protesting have had their taxes lowered, not raised. And every one of them have had Representation for hundreds of years.

So I again ask you, what are you protesting? Nothing.

What you're doing is promoting the typical Republican divisiveness, support of ill education, hatred, and fear OF SOMETHING THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET.

And you know what? Going up to the same amount of taxes everyone paid during the Ronald Reagan era is not going to kill you. In fact, you probably won't even notice the difference because most of the people protesting are rich anyway.

As a reference to my first post... this would be the perfect example of Americans working against their own best interest. And let me add, behaving like bratty spoiled children to boot.