Republicans Believe Government IsTheft

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
Conservatives refuse to pay enough to keep civilization alive.

Here's what civilization looks like:

"Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys.html

Pax On Both Houses: Blog Posts About Canada

(I am an American citizen and a proud graduate of The University of Toronto where I received world-class education at the same steeply subsidized cost as Canadian citizens. While a Toronto undergraduate from 1965 - 1970, I also received free healthcare under Canada's Single Payer system)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/compendium-my-blog-posts-concerning.html

Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris: On Taxes

25 December, 1783

"The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law. All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html 

"Plutocracy Triumphant"

Cartoon Compendium

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/plutocracy-triumphant.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: Plutocracy, Economic Inequality & Collapse Of Conservatism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/pope-francis-on-finance-economics.html

Teddy Roosevelt: "Malefactors Of Great Wealth... 

Are Curses To The Country"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/teddy-roosevelt-malefactors-of-great.html

What's Wrong With Conservatives? Seriously. What's Wrong With Them?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/whats-wrong-with-american-conservatives.html