To: EternalVigilance
While that is true, Alan Keyes has never made a single one of their arguments.How did Keyes get into this discussion?
When it comes to taxes, the "how" is even more important than the "how much," if you care about liberty.
There are many good reasons for abandoning the income tax and going to a consumption tax, but liberty has never entered my mind as one of them. Almost every law in the Nation involves a curtailment of some type of liberty. That is why they are called laws.
To: MACVSOG68
How did Keyes get into this discussion? He wrote the article we're discussing.
69 posted on
04/12/2007 10:11:00 AM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(With taxation, the "how" is even more important than the "how much," if you care about liberty...)
To: MACVSOG68
but liberty has never entered my mind Dang. Try not to be so close-minded.
70 posted on
04/12/2007 10:11:49 AM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(With taxation, the "how" is even more important than the "how much," if you care about liberty...)
To: MACVSOG68
Almost every law in the Nation involves a curtailment of some type of liberty. Laws that infringe on unalienable rights are not laws at all...they are in fact lawless edicts.
72 posted on
04/12/2007 10:12:56 AM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(With taxation, the "how" is even more important than the "how much," if you care about liberty...)
To: MACVSOG68
What I hear you saying is that the citizens of this country exist economically at the pleasure of government and whatever it is that they decide they’ll allow you to have and keep.
The very existence of the income tax is, in a practical sense, an acknowledgment that government owns every single thing that you can produce, either by your skill or by the sweat of your brow. Any portion you get to keep is based on their whim.
75 posted on
04/12/2007 10:19:02 AM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(With taxation, the "how" is even more important than the "how much," if you care about liberty...)
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