As I understand it, Paul's argument is that people who bring foreign turnips into the country are harming you, as a domestic turnip grower, and therefore tariffs are not an initiation of force. One has to assume, from his argument, that force has been somehow initiated already against domestic turnip growers *and* buyers in the domestic market, but I can't for the life of me figure out how that is, nor has Paul ever been able to logically and effectively explain it.
He does admit that tariffs aren't perfect, so maybe he figures that a small bit of theft is ok since we've got to support a government somehow, and the 3% tariff is the least harmless method of doing so. Unfortunately, theft is immoral and it doesn't matter if it's just the tiniest it of theft, it's not, as Leonard Read put it, a compromise of principles, it's a complete abandonment of principle. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of terry12622000 Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Libertarian] Re: Immigration I can voluntarly avoid eating 2 turnips from my garden instead of 1 but I perfer to have 2 and noone has a right to tell me I can't eat two on my own property, or selling the turnips on my property to someone else, either way it is coresive to charge me a tax, it is clearly intation of force and I have a right to defend myself if someone trys to collect by use of force, unless they can show all 12 members of a jury why I owe the tax but I have a right to an appeal if the jury decesion goes against me. Paul it is called due process, Someone can't just claim I owe a tax unless you can prove before a jury of 12 of my peers why I owe the debt and how much I owe. If anyone try to enforce me to pay without proving their case before a jury I have a right to defend myself.--- In [email protected], "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
