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« on: February 28, 2006, 01:01:32 PM »

From Jamie Whyte's A Load of Blair, a book on the fallacies endemic in political rhetoric:

"In November 2002, an ICM poll asked voters if they were willing to pay more tax to fund increased spending on public services. 62 percent said yes. It also asked respondents if they believed this extra spending would improve standards in health and education. Only 51 percent said yes. At least eleven percent of voters favour pointless increases in taxation."

At least eleven percent of voters are willing to pay more taxes, even knowing those taxes wouldn't grant any benefit.
Isn't it shocking to know that those 11% also have the right to vote?

Send them to re-education camps.  Communists may have had their flaws, but they got one thing right.... 

What does Communism have anything to do with tax-rates?
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