Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Still more holes in libertarianism Message-ID: <22400052@ea.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 03:26:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.22400052 Posted: Sat Dec 1 03:26:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:08:44 EST References: <505@wucs.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:wucs:-50500:ea:22400052:000:1192 Nf-From: ea!mwm Dec 1 02:26:00 1984 /***** 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?