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From: [e-mail] (Zhahai Stewart)
Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
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Greg makes the point that houses, among other things, have been seized due
to unpaid income taxes, and since some portion of taxes go to feed needy
people, therefore our government feeds the needy by forcibly extracting
from the less needy.  Of course, a portion goes to building weapons whose
so called collateral effects include killing many thousands of kids, so one
could as well say they sieze houses by force in order to kill babies.  But
looking deeper, all contract law between private parties ultimately relies
on invoking government force to enforce the terms (otherwise the other
party can just thumb their nose at the wronged party), so all public and
private legal contracts likewise rely on the government's armed force.
Thus any use of private contracts is a use of violent force.  All of these
lines of reasoning are worth less than the phosphor on which they are
written.  Taxes are theft if private contract enforcement is theft;
tautologies do not enlighten us.

I hope that discussion of public schools can be on a more informed level
than this. / ~z~