Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Supreme Court opinion on taxation vs theft Message-ID: <260@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 18:35:07 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.260 Posted: Mon Feb 18 18:35:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Feb-85 04:48:48 EST References: <630@wucs.UUCP> <452@whuxl.UUCP> <421@topaz.ARPA> <459@whuxl.UUCP> <4499@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 21 > From stewart@ihldt.UUCP (R. J. Stewart) Fri Feb 15 23:29:35 1985 > One more voice into the fray: > > "To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property > of the citizen and with the other to bestow it on favored > individuals ... is none the less *robbery* because it is done > under the forms of law and called taxation." > > United States Supreme Court > Loan Association v. Topeka (1874) If you think that is going to impress anyone, I suggest you look into the Court's rulings on segregation from the same period. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "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.