From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!jfw
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: progressive tax
Article-I.D.: mitccc.219
Posted: Mon Dec 13 23:40:52 1982
Received: Wed Dec 15 05:30:49 1982
References: hplabs.1183

A message from hplabsb!soreff says:
	"A message from rabbit!ark asks:
		``The single most important question about any tax system is
		this:  Does my life belong to me, or not?''
	I think the author is confusing the tax system with the draft system,
	or confusing earning and breathing.  -- Jeffrey Soreff"

If I am a slave, then my life does not belong to me.  If I am a slave
for 11 months of the year, but am permitted freedom for the 12th month,
is this truly being free?  At what point does a tax system cease to be
slavery?  Does it ever (were *YOU* *asked* to give up your earnings, or
do you merely agree with it happening)?  Before you laugh off these
questions, answer them:  what percentage of time must I give you freedom
before you will not feel that you are my slave?  Even if you agree with
tax systems (and some libertarians acknowledge their partial necessity),
these questions do NOT go away -- they merely go unanswered by those who
benefit.

Note:  working for Big Multinational Incorporated for money is NOT slavery
-- you always have the option of telling them what you think of them and
going to live off the land in the Alaskan North Woods.  *They* won't
have you imprisoned.

Fighting for the recognition and acknowledgement of tradeoffs,
	-John Woods