>>>Then habituate them again to the idea that death is free and keeping among the living will cost exponentially at higher age...
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>Won't happen. These people have voted for Ponzi benefits all their lives and won't stop now.
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>>>I know I paid already more in taxes than I will ever cost or have received from the state including eddication,
>but I will leave for another country if they try to tax the funds I reserved for my retirement to that degree.
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>I used to think that way until my accountant told me to think of it differently: paying more tax means you're doing OK and have a better life than somebody who pays no tax.

I can't remember where (I vaguely think it was in Jim Bouton's "Ball Four," but don't know why I think that), but years ago, I read a line like "My goal is to have a tax bill big enough to complain about." Whenever I want to complain about my taxes (and we pay some pretty high ones), I remember that.

Tamar