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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Theft, taxes, and Libertarianism
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 16:47:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 16:47:49 1984
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> >You people sound like a broken record sometimes. Can't you think of any
> >more interesting analogies to make than "Government taxation is theft"?
> >If you define theft as "taking money from people without their consent",
> 
> I don't define things that way, the dictionary does.  Look it up, and
> stop trying to draw a distinction that isn't there.

Most of the discussion on Libertarianism says that crimes should be tried
as civil cases.  That is if I pollute the river that flows onto your
property then you should sue me for damages.

How does someone sueing me differ from the government taxing me?  In
both cases money is being taken from me against my will.  Is it not
theft because an individual instead of a government gets the money?

				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
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