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- Subject: Re: Outgrowing Libertarianism...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.160056.3969@desire.wright.edu>
- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Date: 8 Sep 92 16:00:55 EST
- References: <1992Aug31.034235.9294@newshost.unh.edu> <52770@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- <1992Sep5.030208.18854@newshost.unh.edu> <53064@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <53064@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep5.030208.18854@newshost.unh.edu> pas@kepler.unh.edu (Paul A Sand) writes:
- >>vy: Victor Yodaiken
- >>ps: Paul Sand
-
- >>vy: Only if one accepts willingly confuses propaganda with reality.
- >> Those libertarians who accept the need for taxation (e.g. in
- >> accordance with the platform the the Libertarian party) [...]
- >>
- >>A factual aside: the LP's 1992 platform calls for `the eventual repeal
- >>of all taxation.' Whether this shows Victor's confusion with
- >>propaganda, reality, or just reading comprehension is an exercise left
- >>to those who care.
- >
- > And the Communist Party of the Soviet Union called for "eventual" withering
- > away of the state. The LP admits the current necessity of taxation.
-
- [...from the LP Platform...]
- ...
- II. TRADE AND THE ECONOMY
-
- Because each person has the right to offer goods and services to
- others on the free market, and because government interference can
- only harm such free activity, we oppose all intervention by government
- into the area of economics. The only proper role of existing
- governments in the economic realm is to protect property rights,
- adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary
- trade is protected.
-
- Efforts to forcibly redistribute wealth or forcibly manage trade are
- intolerable. Government manipulation of the economy creates an
- entrenched privileged class -- those with access to tax money -- and
- an exploited class -- those who are net taxpayers.
-
-
- 1. THE ECONOMY
-
- Government intervention in the economy imperils both the personal
- freedom and the material prosperity of every American. We therefore
- support the following specific immediate reforms:
-
- a. drastic reduction of both taxes and government spending;
-
- b. an end to deficit budgets;
-
- c. a halt to inflationary monetary policies;
-
- d. the removal of all governmental impediments to free trade; and
-
- e. the repeal of all controls on wages, prices, rents, profits,
- production, and interest rates.
-
- 2. TAXATION
-
- Since we believe that all persons are entitled to keep the fruits of
- their labor, we oppose all government activity that consists of the
- forcible collection of money or goods from individuals in violation of
- their individual rights. Specifically, we:
-
- a. recognize the right of any individual to challenge the payment of
- taxes on moral, religious, legal, or constitutional grounds;
-
- b. oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including
- capital gains taxes;
-
- c. support the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, and oppose any
- increase in existing tax rates and the imposition of any new taxes;
-
- d. support the eventual repeal of all taxation; and
-
- e. support a declaration of unconditional amnesty for all those
- individuals who have been convicted of, or who now stand accused of,
- tax resistance.
-
- As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax
- evasion should be terminated immediately.
-
- We oppose as involuntary servitude any legal requirements forcing
- employers or business owners to serve as tax collectors for federal,
- state, or local tax agencies.
-
- We oppose any and all increases in the rate of taxation or categories
- of taxpayers, including the elimination of deductions, exemptions, or
- credits in the spurious name of "fairness," "simplicity," or alleged
- "neutrality to the free market." No tax can ever be fair, simple, or
- neutral to the free market.
-
- In the current fiscal crisis of states and municipalities, default is
- preferable to raising taxes or perpetual refinancing of growing public
- debt.
- ...
-
- Which is a bit more than merely hoping for 'eventual removal'. And
- nowhere does it say anything about "current necessity". Personal income taxes
- are not a necessity.
-
- Brett
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