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To: Etoo
>>if you don’t pay the taxes on it,
>>it can be foreclosed upon. It is never truly yours.

Couldn't you also say, "If you pay taxes on it, it is never truly yours." ?

19 posted on 03/04/2008 3:16:30 PM PST by hripka (There are a lot of smart people out there in FReeperLand)
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To: hripka

or even simpler......you rent it from the government.


22 posted on 03/04/2008 3:24:23 PM PST by sheana
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To: hripka
The catch-all is to say that the government endows us with ours rights - that they are only rights because the government recognizes them. ED is the 990th cut to the tattered remains of property rights; we are all merely renters (those of us who "own" our homes simply skipping the middle-man and paying directly to Mother Samantha).

What a sad decline from the vision of the founders, where our rights were endowed upon us at the moment of our individual creation, and that the government is only legitimate if it recognizes and respects those natural rights.

So, after a few hundred year experiment, the net result is that we basically got rid of the swords and watery maidens.

23 posted on 03/04/2008 3:32:07 PM PST by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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