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Originally Posted by brucepick
Personally, I don't have a problem with taxes, as long as we don't have "taxation without representation". In this country, we citizens "own" the government. We are responsible for it, and we fund it. I think a lot of us have to get over the idea that anything the govt does that we personally didn't ask for or benefit from is waste. That's just being selfish.
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One more comment on this (because I've been doing my homework and kicking the local yocals' arses online): these two levies passed with
19% of the registered voters approval. "Majority"- Ha!