(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

[Adam Thornton]

On May 19, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 17:09:43 Adam Thornton wrote:
>> "Robbing from the rich to give to the poor," is simply the same
>> argument stood on its head, of course.  Does taxation go from
>> "legitimate" to "robbery" at a value derived from the absolute dollar
>> value of the tax, from a percentage of income across all income
>> ranges, or to a degree of inconvenience across all income ranges?
>
> Taxation goes from "legitimate" to "robbery" when it's taken for an
> illegitimate purpose.  Government has one legitimate function - to  
> protect the
> rights of the individual.  Everything else is illegitimate and taxes  
> for those
> purposes are robbery.

Concisely put.

What are the rights of the individual?

Adam