Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. meant that citizens must pay taxes as a way to help society stay organized.
I agree with him because taxes pay for several different services that are essential to American society. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1) Public schools- School funding, teacher salaries, and the support staff of a school are all paid by tax dollars.
2) Emergency services- Police departments and fire departments are also funded by tax money.
3) Government services/employees- The people who make our laws and who provide help through government programs are all paid for their efforts thanks to taxes.
At any one time in the year at any one point on the globe, the sun and stars are found above the horizon at certain fixed heights at a distance that mariners can measure with as simple an instrument as one's fingers, laid horizontally atop one another and held at arm's length.
Answer:
Saratoga was immensely important because it convinced the French to join the American cause in the Revolution and also halted a planned British division of New England from the rest of the colonies.
