01-21-2008, 10:34 AM
The fellow in Texas wrote: Where would it stop? Perhaps an additional tax on any houses with more than 1200sf? Maybe an additional $1000 tax for every tree removed from any property?
I notice that people take a scenario and spin it to 'what if's' and that doesn't move the conversation forward as much as "what about?"
Yes the government is in our lives way, way too much. They give us things we want, fire, roads, schools and in return they take something for themselves. Our taxes pay their salaries and everybody likes to pad their budgets. There is a big difference between living here and seeking to profit from here.
If a man fishes for himself and his family and maybe some to trade, he will have enough fish. If a man fishes for money alone, he will never have enough fish.
If we seek to maximize our profits from what we can wring out of the land, at the expense of our quality of life in the future, (and the quality of life for our children's childern) we have truly descended into madness.
I grew up in Houston and I am all to familiar with the attitude of the 'locals' and it is from that fine tradition that the values of our current President came.
Your ignorance is their power.
Marlin
PS I think educating people to the cutting down of their trees is valuble as trees are a resource that keep us all alive. Common sense, which is not so common these days, dictates what is appropriate thinning. I just knocked down a bunch of weed trees and have already replanted a number of others to take their place.
marlin
I notice that people take a scenario and spin it to 'what if's' and that doesn't move the conversation forward as much as "what about?"
Yes the government is in our lives way, way too much. They give us things we want, fire, roads, schools and in return they take something for themselves. Our taxes pay their salaries and everybody likes to pad their budgets. There is a big difference between living here and seeking to profit from here.
If a man fishes for himself and his family and maybe some to trade, he will have enough fish. If a man fishes for money alone, he will never have enough fish.
If we seek to maximize our profits from what we can wring out of the land, at the expense of our quality of life in the future, (and the quality of life for our children's childern) we have truly descended into madness.
I grew up in Houston and I am all to familiar with the attitude of the 'locals' and it is from that fine tradition that the values of our current President came.
Your ignorance is their power.
Marlin
PS I think educating people to the cutting down of their trees is valuble as trees are a resource that keep us all alive. Common sense, which is not so common these days, dictates what is appropriate thinning. I just knocked down a bunch of weed trees and have already replanted a number of others to take their place.
marlin
marlin