> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Ronn Blankenship
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> Verzonden: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:22 AM
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> Onderwerp: RE: Poll (US posters only)
> >How typical American to call "someone forcibly taking your money" a
> >restriction of freedom. Over here in Europe, we just call it
> "theft". :-)
>
>
> Some people over here call it that too. If they refuse to go along,
> though, the IRS sends the police to their door to toss them in jail and
> seize all they own.
Different interpretation of "forcibly". You read it as "force of law", while
I used "forcibly" in the meaning of "violently".
I don't consider taxes a form of theft, since no force (violence) is used to
get me to pay taxes; the government doesn't hold a gun to my head and say
"give us your money or we'll shoot".
Don't know who the IRS collects taxes, though... <grin>
Jeroen
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