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From: mwm@ea.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Still more holes in libertarianism
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Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 03:26:00 EST
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/***** ea:net.politics / wucs!esk / 12:29 am  Nov 26, 1984 */
> (I
> can just imagine how a nation will defend itself when taxes are abolished!
> What a JOKE!)

Paul, I have not trouble at all imagining how a nation can defend itself
without taxes. After all, the good old US of A not only defended itself,
but made a good attempt at genocide on the Indians before there were income
taxes. Before that, we also took quite a bit of territory from Mexico
(remember the alamo? :-). Then there was the war of 1812, when we whipped
one of the most powerful nations on earth. All before we decided that we
just *had* to tax peoples income.

"Oh, but we still had tariffs, etc." I can hear you say. Fine, just how did
we finance the revolutionary war? After all, the taxes that the US had been
paying up till then went to the *other side*. Could it be, just possibly,
that that war was financed with private donations? [Yeah, I know, the
French helped.]

> Not just the good of society but -- to leave a really bad taste in your
> mouth -- for the good of the individual concerned.

Yup, you left a really bad taste in my mouth. Where do you get off deciding
what is and isn't good for me?