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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
Date: 25 May 2024 13:01:39 -0000
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 23 May 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>> What are you saying? I do not understand what you are saying.
>>
>> There are many things that need to be in place for me to feel good about
>> paying taxes.   Fairness in taxation is one of them.  But there are many
>> others; if a large portion of the taxes go to funding Mr. Mobutu, I and
>> many others feel less good about paying taxes, for instance.  Fairness in
>> taxation is not the only thing but it is certainly an imporant thing.
>
>There can never be fairness in taxation, since taxation is theft. Or are 
>you of the opinion that what is forbidden for individuals should be 
>allowed by the government?

Taxation is part of the social contract that you agree with to live in a 
place.  If you don't agree with it, that's okay, you can go live somewhere
else.  As long as there is somewhere else to go, you can't call operating
fees a form a theft.  I think this is where you have gone wrong.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."