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Old 04-25-2008, 02:59 PM
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im taxed 1700 in every check it hurts
When your complaining that your tax bill is larger than my net paycheck, I have absolutely zero sympathy for you.
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But you are forgetting one important thing. Our taxes pay for our universal health care system. Don't you know that you universal health care system is the envy of the world?

I don't even want to know what my last three surgeries would have cost me! I'm sure more than I paid in taxes in that year!
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Yesterday was tax freedom day in the United States so I looked up when ours is. It was June 20 last year (Canadian Taxpayers Federation). That is 58 days longer we get to work for our government than the Americans.

I'm sure the millions of Americans who live without health insurance were dancing in the streets yesterday.
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No kidding! The newspapers are filled with stories of Americans sick and left dying in the streets due to the lack of health insurance.

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