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- From: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progre
- Message-ID: <4578.110.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 3:38:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
- Reply-To: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks)
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- MH> >So let me see if I understand this. Premise 1: Your parents were poor.
- MH> >Premise 2: You needed an education to suceed. Conclusion: Joe Richguy
- MH> >down the street should be compelled, at gunpoint, to pay for that
- MH> >education. Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I'm missing the logical leap
- MH> >there.
-
- MH> Yes, quite obtuse, in addition to misrepresenting my thought.
-
- MH> Nobody is compelling Joe Richguy to do anything: he has chosen to live
- MH> in the
- MH> USA and abide by our government. Nobody is pointing a gun at him and
- MH> commanding him to stay here where by mutual agreement we are taxed.
-
- Sure they are compelling him! He is compelled to make a choice between
- paying the tax and leaving his home. (or suffering the consequences of
- doing neither!) And as for mutual agreement, nobody asked ME if it was OK
- to snatch a third of my paycheck to pay for thing I'd rather not have!!!
- Taxation is theft, plain and simple.
-
- MH> Joe Richguy has now benefitted, since I have by now already repaid
- MH> (through
- MH> taxes on my greater earnings) those subsidies, and can now better share
- MH> supporting the costs of society with him.
-
- How does he benefit if he dosn't want the stuff your taxes bought for
- him? You are making the huge assuption that those tax dollars are wisely
- spent for socially beneficial things that Joe Richguy would be willing to
- pay for. I for one will not grant you that this is the case.
-
- MH> You have also ducked my challenge.
-
- MH> Mike Huben
-
- David Brooks
-
- >>> Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for! <<<
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