>>Oh, I see. You are speaking about statistics and averages. I prefer to take responsibility for by own actions. I refuse to take responsibility for what someone else may have done without my approval or knowledge.
So you'd be happy for a taxpayer starting work today, to echo your philosophy? She too prefers to take responsibility for her own actions and refuses to take responsibility for what someone else may have done without her approval or knowledge?
By these means, she resiles from Medicare and Social Security contributions, as do millions of other taxpayers.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
