Re: Heartburn of the Day

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:16:15 -0700, MooseFET wrote:
On Jul 7, 12:58 pm, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:29:34 +0000, Bob Quintal wrote:
Richard The Dreaded Libertarian <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

What is this "access to the green" stuff you keep chanting? I

I stated that taxation is not theft. It's like a membership fee
to a golf club. If you want to putt on the green you gotta pay
the fee. If you don't want to putt on the greens, or drink in
the clubhousew, get off the golf course...

Yes, precisely. But I'm not allowed to do that - if I choose not to
pay those fees I never use, they will come and take my money by force.

You can choose not to do those things that take advanges of the
services of the government and thuse not have any fees to pay.

Everything that causes you to owe a tax involves a free choice you
have made and the use of a service of the government.

No, everything that causes me to "owe" a tax (which is completely wrong -
I have received nothing of value from the regime, so owe them nothing)
was an arbitrary decision some bureaucrat or politician made to forcibly
take my money away.

I can see roads, but that's _SUPPOSED TO BE_ taken care of by fuel taxes,
which is fair, since those who use the roads more pay more for their
upkeep. And everybody agrees libraries are a good idea.

But other than that, there's no conceivable purpose for government other
than to force people to behave in ways they don't want to behave, or
threaten them with violence if they want to behave in ways that the
regime doesn't want them to behave.

Overriding Free Will is the only true Evil there is.

Thanks,
Rich

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