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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