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- From: phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: But it is OK to coerce certain groups...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.172412.3843@netcom.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:24:12 GMT
- References: <1k8147INN905@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- In article <1k8147INN905@morrow.stanford.edu> XA.U20@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis) writes:
- >In article <1k6ftsINN1mv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>,
- >stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (coram populo) writes:
- >>Number one, you live and function ( I assume ) within the
- >>social and political structure of the US. That for one, makes
- >>it someone compelling to become and belong to the
- >>social/political contracts that we based the operation of our
- >>society on. You of course, are quite free to make change via
- >>democratic processes.
- >>
- >Say you live in a section of South Central L.A. where the
- >majority of the population belongs to the Crips. They (Crips
- >members - you are free to become one) have democratically
- >decided that all people living in their territory should pay
- >them protection money so they can keep out the Bloods. You
- >belong to neither the Crips or the Bloods. You don't care if
- >they want to kill each other off. You want both of them to
- >leave you alone. If you do not have to submit to the
- >extortion of the Crips just because you happen to live in
- >South Central, why should you have to submit to the extortion
- >of a group that calls itself the LA City Council or the U.S.
- >Federal Government just because you happen to live in LA or
- >anywhere in the U.S.?
-
- A real life example would be the Amish. Starting in the early 1970's, when
- the Federal State started collecting "Social Security" taxes from the
- self-employed with a vengeance, the Amish would particularily hard hit.
-
- After several well publicised confiscations of Amish farms (for back "Social
- Security" taxes), Congress passed some kind of delaying law.
-
- I haven't been able to follow the conclusion, but, in any case, it's not
- germaine to the point.
-
- Which is -- WHAT supposed "social contract" do the Amish live under that forces
- them to pay Social Security taxes. By all accounts, their retirement programs
- are self-sufficient and far superior to any thing that "Social Security"
- could evenr provide.
-
- By their very lifestyle, surely no one could accept even this mythical
- "Social Contract" as applying to the Amish.
-
-
-
-
- --
- There are actually people that STILL believe Love Canal was some kind of
- environmental disaster. Weird, eh?
-
- These opinions are MINE, and you can't have 'em! (But I'll rent 'em cheap ...)
-