Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Taxation is theft Message-ID: <3778@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 10:44:33 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3778 Posted: Wed Sep 25 10:44:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:57:53 EDT Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 In article <767@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: >In article <3700@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) writes: >> Well, Mike, if I burn my furniture as firewood it will prevent >> your breaking into my house and stealing it. That does not make >> your doing so the less theft. > >What a dishonest misrepresentation. I need not "throw away" anything: >I can liquidate properties and ownerships, and take my profits with me, >and buy anew in my new nation. I can exchange my current job for another. >Mike Huybensz Oh dear. When Mike breaks into my house and robs me of my furniture, the reason it isn't theft isn't because I could have burned the furniture beforehand. The reason is that I could have sold it beforehand at a yard sale. I stand corrected. --JoSH [For Mike and anyone else who missed it, that last line is an ironic sarcasm. I stand, you see, because I have no furniture...]