[Congressman Billybob]

Gene Volokh is a smart cookie. I got to interview him on Radio Free Republic, and it was a pleasure. However, I think at this point his column is passing the point of Robert's article, like ships passing in the night.

Robert's point, I surmise, had nothing to do with race. It was a purely economic one that the proportion of our wages that the government takes out of our hide is similar to the proportion that slave owners took out of the salaries of their skilled slaves, who worked lumberyards, brewers, and various other manufacturing operations.

That is an interesting point, which I did not know before. But it has no connection to the other discussion of class-based rights, rather than individual rights, which was the original and successful plan for the federal government.

Have I missed something? Or has Gene missed something?

Congressman Billybob

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[.cnI redruM]

Had it merely been the one column he had published on VDARE.com, I would be prone to give Paul Craig Roberts a mulligan and ignore the fact that he had shot one in the drink. The fundamental conceit of Volokh's rightful, in my opinion, criticism of PCR is that this tendency to invoke less than flattering imagery, while describing non-European racial backgrounds appears too frequently to pass off as an accident.

Perhaps, I should have provided a few more of Volokh's links to PCR. I'll admit that N=1 does not a trend make. Here are a few more examples...

http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=1999/6/16/072949

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20010613.shtml

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20021218.shtml

[reelfoot]

"Roberts' point, I surmise, had nothing to do with race. It was a purely economic one . . . ." Precisely. Alan Keyes makes the same point: the income tax is a slave tax.

Paul Craig Roberts BUMP.