(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

[Pedro Pereira]

> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 17:36:13 -0400
> From: brunians at brunians.org
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
> 
> I said this in a recent post. I will expand upon it.
> 
> Taxation, the extortion of money from the citizens, is permissible for
> things that are necessary. My list of necessary things includes the
> military and things related to the military, infrastructure and certain
> kinds of research. I insist that the involuntary nature of taxation be
> explicit and resist the inevitable attempts at expansion of the
> things-to-be-paid-for-by-taxation.

 

I don't want to meddle to much on this discussion but your statements make me curious.

 


"My list of necessary things includes the
> military and things related to the military, infrastructure and certain
> kinds of research."

 

YOUR list. Basically you're OK with extortion of money from its citizens by the government AS LONG as it according to what YOU think is necessary. This means that everyone in this list, from what I gather, is OK with the extortion, the only thing that really changes is the degree of said extortion or, more realisticaly, as long as the money goes into what each one of us thinks it should go. This amounts to no real change in the nature of the political system itself whatsoever, just a change on the degree to each a state taxes and applies the money.

 

The problem resumes itself than to WHO gets to decide where the money goes? My guess is through voting, which is the system that is already in place. That entails no change in the nature of government at all. In the end thats what the US already has. It's up to you people to decide in how much do you want to be robbed and on what should the robbers put the money in.

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