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To: pharmamom

Wasn’t our founding based on “no taxation, without representation”? They had no problem being taxed as long as their interests were being represented in government. Wouldn’t that beg to say then that it would also be “no representation, without taxation”?


27 posted on 08/09/2009 4:18:20 PM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (If Only To Be Left To Live My Own Life)
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican
Wasn’t our founding based on “no taxation, without representation”? They had no problem being taxed as long as their interests were being represented in government. Wouldn’t that beg to say then that it would also be “no representation, without taxation”? All squares are rectangles, therefore all rectangles are squares? That king of "logic" doesn't work.
53 posted on 08/09/2009 6:42:27 PM PDT by The Toad
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican
Wasn’t our founding based on “no taxation, without representation”? They had no problem being taxed as long as their interests were being represented in government. Wouldn’t that beg to say then that it would also be “no representation, without taxation”? All squares are rectangles, therefore all rectangles are squares? That king of "logic" doesn't work.
54 posted on 08/09/2009 6:42:31 PM PDT by The Toad
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