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- From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
- Subject: Re: Want _Your_ Blood to Boil too?
- Message-ID: <h2jn_2_.avery@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 20:30:58 GMT
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- pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
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- >I think that it is legitimate to use force when a private contract is
- >broken and one party owes another party. This is not similar to
- >taxation where those being taxed are not legally or morally responsible
- >for paying another person, and have not given the choice of whether they
- >voluntarily choose to make these payments.
-
- So all those ballot measures in which it is said there will be additional
- taxes for it, we do not have at least a collective choice? All these ones
- who vote in the legislature for taxes "on our behalf", we have no choice?
- Want them out, fine, then take your chances with Republican oppression of
- the soul, or hope that the Libertarians will carry any weight
- any time soon.
-
- This is exactly what other countries watching us laugh about. We have
- all this structure for voting people into powerful positions, and then
- whine about not having any choice about what happens.
-
- If enough of us want more specific, line-item taxation, it will become
- reality. Bush wants line-item vetos so he can pass all military taxes
- and kill all civil aid and educational ones. If he wins that, so be it,
- but when a Democrat gets in the white house, the militarists' own weapon
- will be used against them. Maybe then we will have the day when schools
- get all they want and the Air Force has to have a bake sale.
-
- Something to think about, all you Republican line-item-heads.
-
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