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- Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
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- Date: 15 Aug 92 17:11:04 GMT
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- joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
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- > Hmm, I had/have no intention of starting a flamewar, but a rational debate,
- > certainly.
-
- ...
-
- > Yes, the government does indeed take by force. They may call it an income
- > tax, but that is just extortion. How do you define "fair share"? It costs
- > very little (if any) more to secure the rights of a rich man compared to
- > those of a poor man. They are, after all, the same rights. (Example: the
- > rich man may have more property in need of being patrolled or guarded vs.
- > lawbreakers)
- >
- > In fact, if you think you own any property, merely decide not to pay some of
- > this arbitrary extortion, and see how long you keep it.
- >
- > Is this the government of our founding fathers?
-
- Yes, it is.
-
- > In any case, although I try to word my questions to make the answers fairly
- > obvious from my standpoint, I would love to hear the opinions of others.
- > I would like to be able to take them seriously too (how else might I learn
- > things?), so please derive them using Reason, evidence, or both. And if
- > you think the discussion is likely to be too intense or florid for this
- > board, by all means send me email.
- > If you are interested in some solidly written background information, I
- > strongly recommend "For the New Intellectual" and "The Virtue of Selfishness"
- > by Ayn Rand (I admit to not having read all of "Atlas Shrugged"...yet);
- > and "The Psychology of Self-Esteem" by Nathaniel Branden. Eye openers, to
- > be sure.
- > -JTT
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- dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
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