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- From: potter@silver.usna.navy.mil (Mr. Jeff Potter (CADIG STAFF))
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Human Rights...
- Message-ID: <2101@usna.NAVY.MIL>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:40:26 GMT
- Sender: news@usna.NAVY.MIL
- Organization: U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
- Lines: 43
- Originator: potter@usna
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- Thomas O. Smith writes:
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- >Libertarians need to accept the fact that people possess certain
- >basic human rights. An important purpose of government is to
- >insure that these rights are protected for all citizens regardless
- >of social or economic status. To do this, ......[deleted].....
- >And that is why governments have the moral right to impose
- >taxes. ....[deleted].....
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- You are correct, humans do have certain inaliable rights. These
- being defined by the founders of our country to be life, and the
- protection of private property. These rights are not based on race
- sex, creed, or economic status. What you propose is that the
- `rights' of the poor are more viable than the rights of those that
- are self sufficient! That is not to say that the poor should be
- abandoned, but there are private charities to help them. Why should
- the poor have the `right` to some of my paycheck when I payed my
- way through college to earn a higher living? You seem to be
- confusing `rights' and wants. NO ONE has a right to a better
- standard of living, a great job or a new home. They may well desire
- these things very much but these are not rights and should be
- earned by them.
- Government has no rights! Government is a loose collection of
- individuals whos actions are guided by the constitution. Since
- when does a loose collection of people have a right to your
- paycheck? If you choose to give it to them , fine. The government
- was instituted to PROTECT the rights of individuals regarding life
- and property. What you propose is to invert this to the point
- where the individual needs protection from government in order to
- keep his property. Otherwise any `disadvantaged' group of
- individuals (everyone is disadvantaged in one form or another) gave
- have free reign on my, yours, or your relatives paychecks.
- Please think about how much power you are giving another
- institution and how much freedom you are losing when you allow
- Government to claim that they have a `right' to rape your wallet.
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- Jeff
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