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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Taxation is theft?
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 01:50:38 EST
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Is there anyone else out there who finds it more than a little suspicious
that the main preoccupation of most Libertarians seems to be finding reasons
they don't have to pay taxes?  By "suspicious" I mean casting doubt on the
idea that Libertarianism proceeds from well-defined premises to conclusions
unobvious from those premises, and suggesting that perhaps a significant
number of Libertarians are motivated by a desire to increase their personal
wealth regardless of social consequences.  Obviously not all Libertarians
have that as their motivation, but the pre-eminent role of "reasons I don't
have to pay taxes" in their discussions sure makes you wonder....
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.