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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Air bears, fighting tickets... etc..
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Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 13:54:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 21 13:54:47 1985
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> >/* braman@dataio.UUCP (Rick Braman) / 10:47 am  Apr 15, 1985 */
> 
> >> My conviction is that it is a moral obligation and a social responsibility
> >> to fight traffic tickets with all the resources at one's disposal, since
> >> traffic law enforcement is basically chickenshit legalized highway robbery
> >> and allows cops to prey on people with burned-out taillights instead
> >> of chasing burglars and rapists who, of course, might (shudder,quake)
> >> fight BACK.
> >> 
> 
> >Yeah, and your conviction is exactly what costs those of us who are willing
> >to obey the laws alot of extra tax money, paying for your wasted time in court!
> 
> Nonsense!  Taxes are at the level they are because legislators are unwilling
> to raise them for political reasons.  You're paying the amount of taxes
> you do because that's all the parasites have managed to squeeze out of you
> so far.
> 
> 						Michael Sykora

I never cease to wonder at Libertarian cynicism.  Do you really feel that
your elected officials have *no* other motive than to acquire money to
spend at their whim (within the bounds of political reality, of course)?
And that the government never does anything useful?  Or that increasing
demands on its services somehow has no effect on its need for revenue?

		-Ed Hall
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