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  2. From: david.brooks@yob.sccsi.com (David Brooks) 
  3. Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
  4. Subject: RE: BACK TO TAXES AGAIN (
  5. Message-ID: <3956.177.uupcb@yob.sccsi.com>
  6. Date: 30 Aug 92 22:25:00 GMT
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  9. Reply-To: david.brooks@yob.sccsi.com (David Brooks) 
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  12. BT> Newsgroups:
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  14. BT> Path: nuchat!menudo.uh.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-
  15. BT> state.edu!wupost!uunet!looking!brad
  16. BT> From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
  17. BT> Subject: Re: Back to Taxes again (was Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too
  18. BT> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:44:57 GMT
  19.  
  20. BT> In article <1992Aug28.232954.28765#ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.ucar.edu
  21. BT> (Greg Woods) writes:
  22. BT> >The tax rate was not what provoked the revolution; it was the refusal
  23. BT> >of the British government to grant the American colonies representation
  24. BT> in
  25. BT> >Parliament. "No taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION".
  26.  
  27. BT> Well, I pay taxes, but as a non-citizen, I am not allowed to vote.
  28. BT> I guess you must have lost that revolution.
  29. BT> --
  30. BT> Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-
  31. BT> 0366
  32.  
  33.         Not really, you COULD become a citizen if you really wanted
  34. to! Not that you would get much representation as a citizen either!
  35. The revoulution was co-opted long ago. (I'd say around 1787 if pressed
  36. for a date. Others would probably disagree.)
  37.  
  38.         David Brooks
  39.  
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