(urth) Gene Wolfe's Politics

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Tue Mar 31 14:37:23 PDT 2009


If you would have peace, prepare for war.

What do you think the main purpose of government is, David, if not to
maintain the military?




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>  [1] the military and everything pertaining thereunto,
>
> There's your "armed robbery" right there. ------------------------------
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>>>> >>> Who do estate taxes get passed on to?
>>>>
>
>>> >> As far as I know, estates are only left by natural persons, that is,
>>> >> they are not paid by businesses.
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>> > But how do they not work on the rich people who own the businesses?
>>
>
> (A) Whose money is it? My point of view is that it belongs to the rich
> people and as their property should be disposed of in the manner in which
> they choose. There are other points of view (see below).
>
> (B) Define 'work'. Certainly it does work as a means of limiting social
> mobility, but is that the purpose of taxation? To my mind taxation is
> armed robbery, only justifiable for the absolutely necessary functions of
> government, which are:
>
>  [1] the military and everything pertaining thereunto,
>  [2] building and maintaining infrastructure (taxation to support a rail
> system would be perfectly legitimate from my point of view) and
>  [3] big science, big enough that no private concern would want to do
> (space programs and superconducting supercolliders and so on).
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