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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
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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)
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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...]