Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Why taxation *is* coercive Message-ID: <97@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 22:30:32 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.97 Posted: Tue Feb 12 22:30:32 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Feb-85 05:18:20 EST References: <4759@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 7 Xref: watmath net.politics:7588 net.politics.theory:113 I think you would have a hard time finding somebody who really wants to argue that taxation isn't coercive. I certainly wouldn't claim this. The thing that libertarians need to do if they wish to convince people like me that they are right is convince us that there is nothing worse than coercion, including anarchy and being overrun by foreign armies. Wayne