(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

[brunians at brunians.org]

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.

Of course, as a good Jeffersonian, I believe that from time to time it is
necessary to shoot the bastards and start over. We're not quite there yet.





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> On May 19, 2009, at 4:19 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>
>>
>> But we (the people on the other side of the argument) are none of us
>> arguing for a complete lack of functional civil society and a
>> Hobbesian
>> all-against-all. Were you under the impression that we were?
>
> I don't see how you can get from the position that all taxation is
> theft to the position that some governments are legitimate without
> giving up on the first one.
>
> Adam
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