Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

Daniel D Jones · 20 May 2009, 00:52 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:52:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 17:09:43 Adam Thornton wrote:
> "Robbing from the rich to give to the poor," is simply the same
> argument stood on its head, of course.  Does taxation go from
> "legitimate" to "robbery" at a value derived from the absolute dollar
> value of the tax, from a percentage of income across all income
> ranges, or to a degree of inconvenience across all income ranges?

Taxation goes from "legitimate" to "robbery" when it's taken for an 
illegitimate purpose.  Government has one legitimate function - to protect the 
rights of the individual.  Everything else is illegitimate and taxes for those 
purposes are robbery.

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