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To: Luis Gonzalez
So, you are being a complete hypocrite when you allow yourself the use of facilities built with stolen money.

No. I have no choice. Wherever I go, I will be obliged to use facilities, services and whatnot paid for by stolen money (and not all of it via taxes).

The Constitution doesn't grant us any rights, but it does grant the Federal government certain latitudes, and taxation for the common defense, and welfare of the country.

You can't grant someone else any rights or powers you don't have yourself. Whoever granted the US government any rights or powers, must have legitimately had such rights/powers themselves. Since no one legitimately has the right to steal, no one could have granted any such right to the US Government.

It's necessary for the sort of society that we live in, not for the anarchism you believe in.

True enough. But that is not a valid moral justification. Two wrongs don't make a right. The ends do not justify the means. Those moral truths are necessary for the sort of society we ought to live in, but not for the collectivism in which you believe.

465 posted on 02/02/2003 8:49:48 PM PST by sourcery
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466 posted on 02/02/2003 8:50:14 PM PST by error99 (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law...)
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To: sourcery
You absolutely have choices, you're too lazy to stand by your beliefs.

You could walk on the side of highways, you could ride horses so that you don't pay gasoline taxes, you could climb stairs in tall building to protest the government fees on elevators, you could grow you own food to protest government meddling in food production, you could make your own clothes to avoid paying retail taxes, you could shut off your computer and leave the internet to avoid the taxes involved.

You have choices you can take, or you could bitch for the sake of bitching.
467 posted on 02/02/2003 8:55:46 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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