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From: fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Why taxation *is* coercive (reply to J. Giles)
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 18:09:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 18:09:57 1985
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Reply-To: fagin@ucbvax.UUCP (Barry Steven Fagin)
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Summary: 

Me:
>> By what right can a government force a person from her home if taxes are
>> not paid?  Does the government own the land upon which she lives?  Does

J. Giles:
>Why is this person who doesn't pay taxes assumed to be female?  Are women
>the only people who might refuse to pay taxes?  Maybe women are the only ones
>that the government is thought to pick on.
>
>J. Giles

Give me a break, J. G!  My choice of the feminine pronoun was part of a
conscious effort on my part to avoid sexist language in my postings by
using female and male pronouns equally often.  'This person' sounds
stilted, and I don't like to keep shifting gender.  Had I used the
masculine voice, you would have (rightly) complained that not all
taxpayers are women.  What's a poor well-intentioned libertarian to do?

--Barry
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Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley