Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Seems to me taxation is not a threat to liberty nor destructive. > Seeing that it pays for our police and military, I'd say taxes are > quite freedom enabling.
For the exception, the policy and military, yes. For the rest, no. > [Platt] > I try to simplify complicated issues so you will understand. But, alas . . . > > [Arlo] > Right. You distort, like in the following. > > [Arlo previously] > Public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, > museums, municipal services, social safety net, consumer > protection, environmental protection, land management, yes, I'd say > government brings us wonderful things. > > [Platt] > I know. You love government and all it's interference in our lives. > To hell with liberty. > > [Arlo] > No, I love "public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, > museums, municipal services, social safety net, consumer > protection, environmental protection, land management" and all the > other wonderful infrastructural benefits of living in a civilized > society. These things I mention increase my liberty, not interfere with it. All these things free, like "free roads and waterways?" I guess to you the power to tax is the power to provide freebies. Some "critical thinking" I must say. Some "liberty." > [Platt] > Nice try at avoiding the question, "Why not fire the professors for > speaking out for injustice?" And I have to laugh" -- you want liberty > for the academy but not for the rest of us. > > [Arlo] > I answered your question in my first sentence. Tenure, for good or > bad, protects faculty. Why not tenure for everybody? Is a faculty somehow elite, to be treated differently than the rest of us peons? Why not tenure for Imus? > I want liberty for us all. Where did I say > that otherwise? You want to tax for all sorts of things besides those who defend liberty. That's when you said otherwise. > I said, twice, I found the debacle surrounding the > Duke case deplorable. But, as I've said twice, lynch mobs with > pitchforks are a common part of our American culture. What more can be said? And we should let it go at that? Not even an apology from your precious, protected faculty? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
