Tennessee Tax Revolt To Lead Protest Against Income Tax Proposals TODAY.

Tennessee Tax Revolt ^ | June 29, 2002 | Tennessee Tax Revolt

[The_Eaglet]

News Saturday June 29 - TTR will be at the Capitol all day on Saturday starting at 9:00AM. There is a good possibility that a vote will be taken. PLEASE join us.

[The_Eaglet]

I will be there, and I met some Libertarians who will be there, too. (I'm not a Libertarian, but I appreciate anyone who will plead against the further infringement of the right to property through a state income tax, which is unconstitutional in Tennessee).

The time again has come to make it clear that we don't want this added burden.
Please pray that our present freedoms would be preserved, and plead with our legislators accordingly!

[The_Eaglet]

beep bump

[backhoe]

Neighbor, I'm pulling for you from down in Georgia.

Once you let these perfumed thugs get away with stuff like this, the picking of your pockets will never stop. The time to stop it is now, and I hope you are successful.

[The Raven]

Beep those horns !!!

The Democrats want an income tax, because they are taxing Republicans. Simple as that.

[GailA]

EMERGENCY NOISE MAKERS: SMOKE ALARMS WITH TEST BUTTONS, BE SURE TO BRING EXTRA BATTERY.

As soon as my ride gets here we are on our way, I'll have on my neanderthal horn honker T shirt, with a loud straw hat, and my boss hogg sign with FR on it.

[The Raven]

We need a Tennessee ping list

[GailA]

The profile page acutally pings 202 Tennesse FReepers.

[The Raven]

For all their brilliance, our founders never completely threw off the clutching cloak of altruism, the doctrine that man exists to serve others. This is grotesquely at odds with our founding philosophy of man's inalienable rights, that each man is an end in himself and not a sacrificial object of society. If we let self-sacrifice be our moral ideal, we've given government the means of enslaving us, and liberty, to the extent it exists, will be by permission, rather than right.
Quotation by G. Smith

[The Raven]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791.

"[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people." -- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776. Papers, 1:338

[The Raven]

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

G. Washington

[southernbychoice]

Bump....and see you there.

[Nora]

Freedom goes BEEP BEEP!

BTTT

[Yardstick]

Not to get off topic here but...

Was G. Smith an objectivist?

I think self-sacrifice is a fine moral ideal (or at least a legit component of a larger moral ideal), it's just that it has to be the *self* that decides to do the sacrificing, and not the government, or the collective, or the *other* in some form.

[The Raven]

Not sure what you mean. Here' the link to the quote

[Yardstick]

Not sure what you mean.

Well, first I asked if this Smith fellow whom you quoted is an objectivist. His use of the Randian key-word, "altruism", made me suspect that this may be the case.

Then I said that I think altruism is okay so long as it's not forced on the individual by the collective through the government. Objectivists seem to see altruism as an unqualified moral evil; I see altruism as an evil only when it's forced upon the individual.

I followed your link, and judging from the article's content and the references Smith cites (specifically, Rand's Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal), it appears that he is indeed an objectivist.

Which is fine. Objectivists are right about most stuff, though I think their view of altruism is off-target. But I'm not trying to start a philosophical debate. Mostly I was curious about where Smith (and you) were coming from.

[PetroniDE]

A bump from Texas to those in Tennessee.

P.S. If the Longhorns or Aggies play the Vols this year, Vols go down. That is another argument for another day.

[The Raven]

>>Objectivists seem to see altruism as an unqualified moral evil; I see altruism as an evil only when it's forced upon the individual.

I never got that from reading Rand.

Freedom of the individual is what Rand teaches.....and one can exercise all the altruism one wants.

[Theodore R.]

Hey, that is a good way to simplify the income tax debate in TN. Yet, too many TN Republicans of the Baker-Lamar! stripe will accept an income tax so that the Republicans can pay their "fair share" to "their" government.

[Valin]

When do you think they will get the message?

[Lancey Howard]

Yesterday somebody posted an email from Phil Valentine in which he said that he wanted to conserve resources until there was actually a good reason to mount a big protest. He didn't want the protest mood to grow stale with false alarms and people organizing without some imminent vote on the table. Phil said he was in constant communication with people on the inside and that he would send out the alarm via the radio station if the legislature was getting uppity and a big protest was needed.
Did something come up since then?