(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, according to one famous
document. The first draft said 'life, liberty and property', and property
is also very important. Some people think it might have been better to
leave it as it was. This is not necessarily an exclusive list.



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> 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
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