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http://www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Jun/97247.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0 DE3D71738F936A35754C0A960948260
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0 DE6DA163FF930A35757C0A960948260
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/07/23/st ory560336209.asp
http://www.americas.org/item_16224

Shut up now.

Pay less taxes, and everyone loses.

Who loses if the United States stops paying Colombia to spray poison on innocent Columbian farmers?

What if your taxes pay for famine [cato.org], destruction of private property, tresspassing [americas.org], and assault? [mapinc.org]

If we don't fund these things, everyone loses? We have laws in this country. If you knowingly fund assault, murder, or destruction of private property, you should go to prison. If you unknowingly fund murder, but the murder you fund is a matter of public record, then you should be imprisoned for criminally neglegent homicide.

Taxes are not money wasted. They are the dues you pay to live in a civilized society. Education, Defense, Crime Prevention, Transportation, Infrastructure, these are all programs and benefits funded by your tax dollar.

Yeah. Where else would we get the money to spray poison on innocent Columbian farmers?

I can understand not liking income tax forms, not liking to fill out all the paperwork, not liking to deal with the red tape that comes from doing business with the government. That said, taxes are necessary to create government and, well, you get what you pay for. No taxes means no government.

Can you understand not wanting to contribute to famine, destruction of private property, tresspassing, and assault?

I think it's a crime that in the leading agricultural producing nation on earth, children are hungry.

Great. As long as you don't care about spraying poison on innocent Columbian children, you can pay your taxes with a clean conscience.

You might have also mentioned the slight corruption problem.

Ex-President Calderon remains in jail.
Former Caja President Eliseo Vargas Released from Jail
will formally charge former president José María Figueres Olsen
A "ring of corruption."
Former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez exited from an airplane in handcuffs

There are more, of course, but that's enough.

Thank you for pointing that out, I just learned about this the other day in fact.

Here is a link:http://www.americas.org/News/Features/200110_ After_the_Attacks/200110Chile.htm

"Industry experts said the suit by ABC owner Walt Disney, CBS owner Viacom and NBC owner General Electric"

Well there it is; their chips are on the table. The same manufacturers who own a controlling stake in Tivo and Microsoft's DVR are using the straw man of "high speed digital piracy" to try to maintain their death grip on the way television is distributed.

The fanatical devotion of these companies is amazing; look at the lengths that Hughes has gone to to shut down all 12 of the DirectTV hackers who are "pirating" the satellite signal that Hughes is shining through their houses. Here we have the same concept, large corporations trying to control what consumers do with the radiation that is being beamed through the walls of private property. It's not just insulting, it's absurd.

And let's look at the players here. Viacom, owner of MTV, the most "liberal" espousing network in existence turns out to be managed by conservative, nearly fascist "intellectual property" zealots. Disney, well, their CEO Michael Eisner - and please don't take this the wrong way - but this is just another example of why money is green. Another jew trying to pick it before it's ripe. And finally General Electric, the pioneer of corporate dominance.

Yes sir, a real winners circle right there. I just hope the consumers get enough of these on the market before the product is destroyed that there will at least be an outcry, like there was with Napster.