Re: Two great articles on ignoring government

From: Chris Russo (extropy@russo.org)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 20:29:22 MST


>"Samantha Atkins" <samantha@isis.aurinia.com> says:
>...
>> There is nothing "voluntary" about sums collected at literal gunpoint if you
>> decide not to "volunteer". Let's not pretend about that.
>...
>
>Yeah, well, lucky I said nothing like what you're talking about, so
>I'm still 100% correct. I know taxation is theft. Theft happens to
>be in the Constitution.
>
>My point, my only point, was that the income tax is constitutional.
>Here's why it's constitutional: it's in the Constitution. This ends
>the discussion of the Constitutionality for reasonable people.
>
>Regards,
>James

Yeah, but is it constitutional?

Chris

-- 
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought 
or deed, I will gladly change.  I seek the truth, which never yet 
hurt anybody.  It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance 
which does harm."
              -- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21


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