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From: rf@wu1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.taxes
Subject: Re: earmarking tax money
Message-ID: <188@wu1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 14:08:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 14:08:03 1983
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It seems to me unlikely that any politician would be willing to
limit the power of taxation.  Perhaps, were one establishing
a government from scratch, this system of taxation might be
workable.

Still, wasn't one of the chief problems of the old Continental
Congress the inability to enforce tax laws?  The ability to
*take*, by force if necessary, is the thing that distinguishes 
governments.

				Randolph Fritz
				Western Union Telegraph