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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Taxation is theft
Message-ID: <712@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 12:03:58 EDT
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In article <3471@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) writes:
> In article <1751@psuvax1.UUCP> berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) writes:
> [Replying to Rick McGeer]
> >   Saying that taxation is theft has as much sence as saying that property
> >s theft.  Both statement state opposition to historically evolved social
> >institutions. 
> 
> As near as I can figure this out, you are saying "it doesn't make sense
> to say that the government is stealing because it has been doing so
> for a long time".  

Let's rephrase it into libertarian terms.  You are free to remain within or
leave the social contract agreed to by you by your residency in the US.
Paying taxes is merely your fullfilment of your side of the contract.
The government has the right to enforce the contract you have both
freely entered into and continually renewed.

There is enough choice of governments in this world for you to take your
pick in a more-or-less free market.  To claim that there is no libertarian
government for you to choose from stirs me about as much as arguments
from breathe-airians (people who are trying to reduce food intake to the
point where they can subsist solely on air.  They do actually exist....)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh