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  Interesting question from Reg. Not because it has any relevance as such, but because along with other things he has said it suggests an attitude that I find abhorrent.
  
  Quite clearly Reg - you take a 'communal view' of property. You believe that a government can spend what it likes and we all just have to pay whatever taxes are demanded of us and be grateful for whatever the government allows us to keep.
  
  This suggests you are an old fashioned communist in the Soviet style when combined with your expressed hatred for the wealthy and successful and repeated suggestions that there should be more controls by government over business and even nationalisation.
  
  Personally I take the direct opposite view.
  
  That we should be wary and suspicious of governments (and politicians), they are essentially incompetent and should not have excessive power. They should spend carefully with the knowledge that they are spending other people's money and should restrain the level of taxes they demand. They have a duty to defend and protect the nation and its interests and to ensure that they enable the conditions for a healthy sustainable economy so they can enable help to those people who really need it. I also believe that our salaries/profits are our private property and we have the right to defend that private property and legally minimise the amount of tax taken by the government. The government must always acknowledge the rights of the individual in that respect and be reasonable with its demands as part of governing by consent.
  
  You and I will never see eye to eye, our whole philosophy of life is at odds.

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