RAF,
> I do not oppose taxes for personal reasons ... but because they empower evil
> *and reduce the people to poverty*.
I see the evil of state and national lotteries for the reason in your final
clause (where I've added my emphasis of '*').
--Joe
> R A Fonda <rafonda@...> wrote:
>
> On 12/12/2012 7:15 AM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote:
> > taxes, like death, are just part of life
>
> Taxes are so dangerous because they enhance and sustain government
> power, which is pernicious due to the imperfections of human nature, and
> because they destroy economic productivity, which impoverishes society,
> with all the misery that entails. Taxes are used to sustain unproductive
> activity (if such activity were productive, it would not require
> tax-support) including war, imperialistic adventures, and domestic tyranny.
>
> I do not oppose taxes for personal reasons (I don't make enough money to
> be especially burdened by them) but because they empower evil and reduce
> the people to poverty.
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