(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue May 19 18:20:52 PDT 2009
Oops, I spoke too soon.
Welcome, wingnut!
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:52:18 -0400
From: Daniel D Jones <ddjones at riddlemaster.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
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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.
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