The Price of Freedom?

Originally Posted 10/06/07 - http://www.myspace.com/iheartdennycraine

So, time for a real blog.Time to rebuild this revolution!!What is the price of freedom?Our ancestors' and friends' and current soldiers' and former soldiers' lives and the sanity of most of the vietnam vets (you know, the ones who haven't shaved since they came home, and the ones like the dude who smells funny and comes into barnes and noble wearing a hat that says someting to the effect of "Vietnam Vets Against Bush!") Is that really the price of freedom???NO!This is the price of freedom:$78 for a lisence plate to have the FREEDOM to drive a car$15 for a use tax to have the FREEDOM to drive a car (it would have been 60 if i hadn't lied a little bit50$ish for a title transfer to have the FREEDOM to own a car$30 a tank for the FREEDOM to drive a car (including around $.20/gal for the FREEDOM to drive on roads...not that I dont agree with this one)$80 for the FREEDOM to leave the countryA couple thousand dollars in income taxes every year for the FREEDOM to live in this country and draw income legallyAround $600 for the FREEDOM to own real estate property (and that's low)And the list goes onIt's oppression, I tell ya! That I am unable to leave the country until I pay nigh $100.00. That's truly not freedom. What if I was poor and decided that I no longer agreed with the politics/ethics/operation/etc. of this country. I would have no choice but to toil here, in a society that I cannot, in good concience, participate in. What if I were homeless and Hillary were to be elected. I'd have to live under her regime because I couldn't scrounge up such an exorbitant fee. So, FREEDOM, has become a priviledge granted only to those who are priviledged enough to be able to afford it. Now I realize that in some cases, one could argue that you are paying these taxes for the priviledge and that, in fact, you're free not to pay those taxes. But what choice is that??? This is ridiculous. I'm moving to Switzerland....and yes, I just might use the word priviledge some more.