Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihldt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihldt!stewart From: stewart@ihldt.UUCP (R. J. Stewart) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Supreme Court opinion on taxation vs theft Message-ID: <2746@ihldt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 23:29:35 EST Article-I.D.: ihldt.2746 Posted: Fri Feb 15 23:29:35 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Feb-85 14:28:37 EST References: <630@wucs.UUCP> <452@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 9 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)