Re: Final Challenge to Socialists

Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:14:06 +1100 (EST)

---Eric Ruud <ejruud@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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> >Tax = theft.
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> > Avoiding taxes has the same moral value as avoiding theft.
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> >EvMick
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> That is assuming that you gain nothing from the particular
government under
> which you live. Unless you're prepared to remove yourself from the
system (a
> la Thoreau) you can't make this claim.
>
>
> -Eric
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The point is not whether citizens can gain anything from government. The point is that citizens can gain so much more without government intrusion in the economy and without government theft of hard earned wages.

Again, I implore all collectivists/socialists to read Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson."

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Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
Individual, Anarcho-Capitalist, Environmentalist, Transhumanist, Mensan

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