Posted On: August 23, 2007, 10:41 am CDT

Posted By: concerned agent

what you are describing is a 'utopian' society, where there is no evil. organized religion was founded all over the world to help us strive for this utopian society. the reality is there is evil in peoples heart and that is what we must protect ourselves against. as a society we must band together in defense of this evil. the role of government must be to identify these people and help us protect ourselves from them. i would love to live in your world and not pay taxes, including federal, state and local but i know that if i do not i will leave myself open to the evil inherent in man. i am not so naive that i do not realize that some or most of the money will be wasted but, as an individual, i cannot stop the onslaught of evil by myself-i need the inefficient help of governement. they should be kept in check by our elected representatives and by our vote but this is our only protection. your utopian world is wonderful to comtemplate and we should all strive to reach it but until we reach utopia this is the next best thing.