Re: Conscription and Taxation Re: They gave their lives....

[Brad DeLong]

>At 10:56 AM 5/31/01 -0700 Brad DeLong wrote:
>>>Britain, of course, still has income taxes.   In other words, Britain
>>>expropriates the fruit of individuals' labors without their consent.
>>>
>>
>>No it doesn't. People *voted* for the representatives who passed the
>>income tax laws.
>
>So, if we vote to enslave all people with blue eyes, did all of the
>blue-eyed people consent to slavery?

You're smart enough. You know the flaws in that counter-argument, and 
why it fails, as well as I do...

I'm not going to be baited.