Civil Servants

[Husar]

yes you can. i don't watch TV, i don't have a TV, i don't pay for a TV license.

we had a plymouth brethren kid when i was in school, he didn't watch TV and we thought he was a freak, now it doesn't seem so much of a big deal.

[edit] off course i don't think TV is evil, but the point stands [/edit]

I don't have TV either, but Coca cola isn't the only thing they advertise there so are you trying to say that Crazed Rabbit goes to the supermarket with a list of things they advertise in sports games where he thinks the athletes are overpaid and consciously avoids buying anything on that list so that he does not support their high wages? I'd like to hear that from himself.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I don't have TV either, but Coca cola isn't the only thing they advertise there so are you trying to say that Crazed Rabbit goes to the supermarket with a list of things they advertise in sports games where he thinks the athletes are overpaid and consciously avoids buying anything on that list so that he does not support their high wages? I'd like to hear that from himself.

No, but if he wanted to he could. Perhaps he likes Coca Cola. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to buy it. Our point is entirely that one is mandatory and one is not.

[Husar]

No, but if he wanted to he could. Perhaps he likes Coca Cola. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to buy it. Our point is entirely that one is mandatory and one is not.

And my point was entirely that, mandatory or not, he pays for it anyway.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

And my point was entirely that, mandatory or not, he pays for it anyway.

Yes and no. He pays for the products he wants and only those he wants, which has the positive side effect of keeping the economy going, which allows other people to make the same choices.

[Husar]

Yes and no. He pays for the products he wants and only those he wants, which has the positive side effect of keeping the economy going, which allows other people to make the same choices.

Paying your taxes has the positive side effect of keeping people alive, which allows those people to make choices in the first place. Of course he could pay only for those he wants to be alive and only those, but he couldn't pay me enough to tell a soldier to go to war naked because someone chose not to pay for his gear.