Comment: It's a Travesty

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It's a Travesty

I happen to like the dictionary. I like boundaries. I am not saying to redefine the word tax. I am saying call the voluntary donation by a correct word, by one that is true by definition: gift, donation, charity; philanthropy; anything but a tax. Now I didn’t look up the word tax like you did, but I should have.

It seems however, if history were told, that some words are stolen and redefined such that the true meaning of the word has been lost into oblivion and the counterfeit definition lives on and we are enslaved by a wrong meaning. You can ask someone else about those words, because I have been using the dictionary since 4th grade.

I happen these days to like to go back to 1828 http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/search/word,tax

However, now that I am looking to the authorities how about a current one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_tax Seems there is a theory of “voluntary” tax. You may already know this and perhaps that is why you guys are hammering it out.

I don’t know any of it. All I know is that we have to work til July 15 to pay all of our taxes…which is a travesty. I don’t care what it is called, I am sick and tired of bleeding my power to a prostitute that doesn’t perform its duty responsibly, as far as I can tell, but rather takes more than half of what I have, prints (or should I say counterfeits some more Bernanke bucks) another half and spends into oblivion.

Maybe we should change the word Tax to Travesty, and then we can use the old word Tax however we want to!

Speaking now as someone who may be old enough to be your mamma, why are you hounding everyone about GJ? You will have alot more friends if you can wait a couple of weeks till Tampa is over. These people have spent fortunes in time and money supporting their candidate. Some of them for the last 8 years. Be kind and gentle, my friend.