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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Taxation is theft?
Message-ID: <259@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 18:06:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 18:06:31 1985
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Josh, while we are in complete agreement that the law is too big and too
complicated, I feel your comparison with a rental contract is specious.
Every such contract I have ever signed has contained clauses which the
courts would throw out as unconstitutionally vague if the document were a
bill of law.  In particular, they have all contained a clause forbidding the
use of the premises for any "immoral purpose".  A law would have to spell
out what that meant in detail, which might well take tens of thousands of
words.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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Liber AL, II:9.