Bruce Bostwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> and every time
> you've responded, you've gone right back to the assertion that
> taxation is essentially theft of your wealth
Taxation is forcibly taking people's money. Literally, my choice is to
pay taxes or have my wages and bank accounts confiscated or go to jail.
People can try to rationalize that in all sorts of ways, but the fact remains.
> with no social benefits whatsoever
Which I did not write, and I do not believe. In fact, I wrote that some
types of government spending are less bad than the alternatives. In
other words, that means that, in some cases, I think there is a benefit to
the government spending compared to not spending the money. But
each such case needs to be approached with extreme care, and we
should never forget that in those cases we are encroaching on liberty
because the ends justify the means, so we better make damn sure
we are right and that the means we choose are the best we possibly
can.
> If you agree that your rights end where mine begin, and vice versa,
> and that both of us are *equally* entitled to an opinion and *equally*
> entitled to examine each other's arguments on their own merits, then
> we don't have a problem.
Of course I agree we are equally entitled to an opinion. I think you are
entitled to anything and everything that you want, as long as you don't
try to force others. Assuming you don't have some expansive definition
of opinion that includes force. What would make you think that I don't
believe you are entitled to an opinion?
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