Quote of the Day
Taxes are nothing more than time-share slavery.
Mike Hines
July 8, 2026
Comment to It is Not a Right if Someone Else has to Provide It
To be fair, Mike was rephrasing Divemedic.
In related news, communism is full-time slavery.
The View From North Central Idaho
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Particularly when it is supporting people living in idleness.
You work 106 days before your tax burden is fulfilled; two-thirds of that is on entitlement programs. So call it 71 days working so other people can eat 365. You’re 19.3% a slave.
Might quibble about exactly which part of entitlement programs constitute you working in bondage to pay for someone else’s bread, but to be sure, it’s not a small percentage of your life.