 - Last login: 10 hours agoDJNazzy
- Dan is a 21 year old guy from White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.
- Likes 3,577 pages, 661 videos, 107 photos • 281 fans • Received 87 reviews
- Member since Jun 16, 2005
I'm here because when I get bored and try to websurf, this is a lot better than wandering around aimlessly!
I'm going to Simon Fraser University where I'm majoring in Political Science, minoring in History and concentrating in Middle Eastern and Islamic History (it's a mouthful), and graduating soon. I enjoy following Canadian, US, and Middle Eastern politics the most.
I've been a professional cook for years now, but I've started my first office job through SFU's Co-op program; I'll see how that goes.
I appreciate art that gets to the point: photography, prose, film, and music. I practically only listen to trance and other electronica, but there's a place in my heart for rock music.
I love going out to restaurants, pubs, clubs or anywhere with my friends in my spare time.
Enjoy my page :) - you'll notice I have an opinion on just about everything
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I really love my last review. I remember the kid. I told him that he took things so out of context that it would be like me ranting about how he misspelled his SU name. Again he's taken my comment out of context and somehow thinks I want to fund the US's War on Terror. Touche. I've been had. Really, I love the War on Terror so much it's just oozing from my blog. Mmm... innocent people dying is really what I'm all about. Alas, he's from Detroit, I suppose, and didn't read the part of my taxation post on the fact that in the United States the government doesn't spend it's money wisely.
"Oh, maybe if you had a decent government capable of spending your tax dollars wisely, you'd fucking get the message that taxes aren't useless money that somehow "vanishes" from your paycheque."
My point was that if you spend on a 64" big screen TV or lets say, a war, you shouldn't put it on your VISA and work part time at McDonalds. You should only pay for things within your means and within those means you should spend your money wisely - governments and individuals aren't so different when it comes to spending. What I was TRYING to say is that although I COMPLETELY UNEQUIVOCALLY DISAGREE WITH THE WAR THE US IS WAGING, the citizens that voted in the people who started it, once even after it was started no less, shouldn't shirk the responsibility for paying for it. It's on your tab, yet you decide not to be taxed enough to pay for it. I'm afraid you get what you pay for and right now, it's a guns or butter dichotomy and the US polity has chosen guns with Bush since 2004.
Yes, Detroit is fucked up. But I think that if the US government had better social programs paid for by taxes from people Detroit wouldn't be such a shit hole! Again, my claims weren't that the US is doing so well with their governmental role funneling tax money to them is smart. That and the fact I can see WHY US citizens don't want to pay taxes to a government who is inept at using them wisely. I said that in other countries, the government spends money more wisely so citizens are not so scared to elect politicians who can balance a budget and pay for decent social programs at the same time.
Oy, I feel like I'm wasting my time. Why? Because if beaulingpin doesn't like government so much he apparently supports a private police force, I can't win. You can't take 1% tax from someone like that and have him be happy. He's either an extreme libertarian or a pseudo-anarchist who just does NOT believe that government can do anything "good". However, when I see the living standards in Europe, especially Scandinavia, where the taxes are higher, the political culture is more accepting of government investing in society's future, and the governments actually following through with those sound investments in society's future, I come to a conclusion that taxation is not "evil." It's not. People bitch and moan that it's something to be done away with - to reduce until it's gone and everything is privatized and everything is user-pay. I'm nearly 22 and I make $15 000 abouts because I'm working so I can pay for my own tuition. I don't get taxed on my income almost at all - I get a rebate every year that gives me back most of my income tax. I get a GST rebate cheque in the mail every quarter so I don't pay federal sales tax. However, I get healthcare, a police/fire/ambulance service that responds in <5minutes, subsidized public transport I use for $90/4 months to anywhere in Greater Vancouver and a subsidized university education. I've seen what evil taxes have done for me and the head start the government spending of the past decades has allowed me to have. I appreciate it so much that if I'm 35 and making $70 000 a year, I'd gladly put back 40% or whatever back into that system that gave me that head start because I'd know I'd surely not be where I would be without other people paying THEIR taxes.
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