Why I pay my taxes....
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well, basically, so someone can do my dirty work. And that's not a bad thing.
Yesterday a neighbor came banging on my front door, semi-hysterical, saying her and her daughter just saw a baby deer get hit by a car in front of my house, which is probably less than 50 feet from the road, on a little suburban street with no sidewalks or curbs. Sone guy hit it and drove away and the dead body was on my front lawn.
The sad part is that I had just seen the little guy with his sibling in the back yard that morning and they were adorable little fawns rooting around in the clover. There's lots of little kids, joggers, dog-walkers and loose dogs in the neighborhood, so I covered it with a tarp to start. Leaving it there was not an option.
Now if it was a different time and place I could have butchered and eaten it, though he was really small. And if it were, like a hundred years ago, I could have left it in a garbage heap to fester. Or if I was an asshole I could have dragged it into the neighbor's bushes to slowly rot (she's sorta a bitch).
But, around here we are civilized and can pick up the phone to call County Services. They are going to pick up the carcass today.
My tax dollars at work.
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Def. High
Gee, I pay my taxes, but
Gee, I pay my taxes, but around here if it's in your yard it's your problem, and if it's on the highway shoulder it just stays there and rots. They will, however, remove dead deer from suburban streets.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
< remove dead deer from
< remove dead deer from suburban streets.>
Technically, his little baby hooves are in the street.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
The County also recently
The County also recently paved our little road, which was covered in potholes. (Even though we are in the suburbs, the road is like a little country lane with no curbs or sidewalks or lines painted down the middle and some houses date back to the 1700s / early 1800s.)
I've been in places everyone had to contribute to maintain and plow the (dirt ) road, but it sure is nice to have publicly funded services like good roads not littered with large dead animals. County government is in a way an extension of that. Maintain the common good / community health. I'm willing to pitch in for that.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Yeah. I feel much better
Yeah. I feel much better paying state and local taxes than I do paying the feds.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank
Taxes are the price of
Taxes are the price of civilization.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jeff
fuck this. i've been paying
fuck this. i've been paying off a large tax sum monthly for the last 2 years and this motherfucker pays nothing? now i know why we he thinks we're all suckers....
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sycamore Slough
Roadkill deer often lay
Roadkill deer often lay around for a while before the county trucks pick them up (rural area). Sometimes one county guy will spray-paint an "X" or something in bright Orange... Then the next guy will haul the carcass away.
Main problem is that they ( Dead deer) attract vultures, which are yet another road-hazard.
Anyway, fawns are really not worth the time and effort to butcher and freezer-wrap. Costs around 60 bucks per deer for the butcher to do it right. Deer season has started here in Jerseyland, but temperatures have been too warm for much activity. The deer sleep all day when it's hot out.
Right now it's "Bow-Season" but you have to whack a Doe first before you can kill a Buck. In a few weeks the regulations change to something different.
The Venison is delicious, especially smoked over Cherry and Walnut at a low temperature. Or you could just grill a Burger over propane, but that's such a waste.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Andean Flight
I don't really see how anyone
I don't really see how anyone can argue against paying the taxes. The problem lies in a) how are those taxes spent and b) how are tax laws created. If you live in a system where your tax dollars are going to good use, and where every citizen pays their FAIR share, then fuck yeah, taxes rock.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jeff
disco stu probably doesn't
disco stu probably doesn't pay taxes
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
You are robbing the vultures
You are robbing the vultures and buzzards of a meal, Alan.
Segue into an unrelated George Carlin one liner.
I've smelled bad breath before, Martha, but you could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon.- Carlin.