I also think those are important, but if I paid taxes I think I would contribute money to them.
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I also think those are important, but if I paid taxes I think I would contribute money to them.
You know what is funny, our government is the same as the pigs
i agree with nicole and lexey. i think that, like what niki stated, we should be able to decide where our tax money goes and what it goes to instead of the gouvernment choosing where (or who) the money goes to. To what lexey said about greed and selfishness......No matter how much we or anyone changes the government people will always be against it. If we were all born in a perfect gouvernment where at first everyone agreed and there was no aguments, something would "click" in someones head and then they would decide to rebel and they would convince people to join them; which would cause the same thing that is happening today. People will always disagree with eachother. If we did not disagree then we would not be human.
Nicole, there are so many things that tax money goes to and one problem is how would someone be able to choose how to split up their tax money evenly or in the appropriate way. Another problem- I'm sure that the majority of the population are not aware of all the different places taxes are placed and so how would we ever be able to make sure that all of the places benefited by taxes receive the amount of money needed.
Lexey I know there are lazy people in this contry who don't care where their money gose so the government could use their money for the things tat have not been paid for
Lexey, I think it could be like voting, you check the ones you want money to go to then maby, if you cared you could prioriize them so the government can deside where the money gose.
i have changed my opinion on the tax issue that was discussed on this and the last page. i agree with lexey and davidson. niki i think that our gouvernment is like thanimal farm. there are some people who think that they are better just because they may be smarter than most of the people; so that puts them on a higher ranking of our social ladder in our society. then there are people who are like boxer. they just want to work and do not disagree with anything that the gouvernment says. that leaves everyone else. that everyone else is the people who work because they have to to survive. they only work because if they did not then they would not survive and then the population would decrease and then more of the people on the upper levels of the social ladder would have to work. there are also other people in the 'everyone else' catagory.
But doesnt it make sense that the smarter people rule and the people who want to work work?
sry but going back to julias comment about equality and whether it really does exist is basically by opinion only there is no way that I think we can decide whether equality exists at all but I do feel that equality does exist but on levels and only on those levels......if ten people get the same education then they will probably get the same ranking job and will most likely get the same pay if they apply themselves....but then again if you look at certain jobs like teachers for example one that have been there longer get paid more and can stay longer and teachers who haven't been there that long even if there better that the older teachers get paid less and are the first fired of need be so there is some levels of equality but it depends on what you feel about equality......please comment if you have a different opinion
i dont agree completely i think that its people who want to rule and people who want to work work because just because someone is smart doesn't mean that they dont want to work or that they dont have to work and you dont necessarily have to be smart to rule you just to have a good idea but you can be smart to rule its just what you decide.....look at Peter from Enders Game he wanted to rule so he came up with a good idea and gaind powerQuote:
But doesnt it make sense that the smarter people rule and the people who want to work work?
ok i know that they probably arent that similar but the do have governments that they are trying to overthrow and then ealize that the original one was porbably better so please comment
Hey everybody! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas/ Holidays!!
As for Animal Farm--I didn't particularly like this novel mostly because I'm not into politics so I wasn't able to connect it as easily as most of you. However, I do agree with most of your comments. Davidson-I have to disagree with you on your latest comment, however. I think that is why we have such a problem in our government, because why aren't the people who like to work not fit for ruling? Just because they aren't as smart?.....it doesn't make sense to me. As long as they have good plans and good leadership skills--thats what I think qualifies an animal/ person to be a great leader. Then again, I do agree entirely with the foreshadowing. I agree that from the very start the pigs assumed leadership and the animals accepted it without question. I was very angry with this.
It was kind-of funny....from the very beginning I knew that the animals would never be equal...especially with the pigs in control...
If you think about it...can any government ever be perfect? Or even equal? Or fair? I know there will be disagreement on what is a "perfect" government, but lets just say a "fair" government. I don't think there can be a "perfect" or even a "fair" government. There will always be someone who assumes leadership, or there will always be some glitch or problem to the system of a government. Please comment if you disagree with me.
p.s. Sorry if my latest comment has already been brought up. ("perfect" government)
Another thing--It made me so mad that the pigs could influence and change anything they wanted over the animals. For example, towards the end of the book we read that the pig (forgot his name) took the sheep aside each day to teach them a new motto, "Four legs good, two legs better!", and they didn't know really what was going on. They didn't realize that the pigs were taking complete control, siding with the humans, and furthermore didn't do anything about it. We also read throughout the book that the commandments would change each time a PIG would disobey them (not any other animal I might add, for if any other animal disobeyed them they would be slaughtered!!)