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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 815650" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>The government has a role in how wealth is created, under what circimstances and how it is distributed.  It acts to accomplish things that individuals cannot all by themselves.  Part of that role is to allocate in a fair way the tax burden.  Government in the hands of the powerful, with their puppets the republicans in charge, can be awful for working people as we have seen lately:  cut taxes for the corporations and the wealthy and attack working people.  Government in the hands of people who believe government has a role in our lives to "form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings to ourselves and our posterity".</p></blockquote><p></p>