Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!oliven!hawk From: hawk@oliven.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Still more holes in libertarianism Message-ID: <769@oliven.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 21:29:20 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.769 Posted: Wed Dec 19 21:29:20 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:20:48 EST References: <505@wucs.UUCP> <22400052@ea.UUCP> Organization: Symposium on Alchoholism Lines: 13 >"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.] So did bonds sold by Congress to pay for the war. These require taxes or salable property later. So did promises of land to the soldiers (this scrip (?) was often sold to speculators.) rick