Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Governments don't create wealth, eh? Message-ID: <5034@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 22:37:33 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.5034 Posted: Mon Aug 13 22:37:33 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 00:25:39 EDT References: <2032@utcsstat.UUCP> <1046@dciem.UUCP> <4212@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 28 In article <4212@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: ~| Taxation is legalized theft. Let us not mince words -- it is the ~| government taking money out of my pocket by force, without supplying a ~| specific service in return. That's theft. The only reason it's legal is ~| that it's done by the same organization that makes the laws. Come now, Henry. I agree with much of what you say, but you're going a bit far with this one. No organized society exists without some form of taxation. As to specific services you get in return, how about police protection, military defense, medicare and the whole social service system, for starters? You may disagree with some of the expenditures made by the system, and you have the right to vote and to work within the political system to make changes if you feel strongly enough about it. Theft? Only if you feel that you really earned every dollar you're paid. Didn't you get some help from government in the form of education? In the form of government support to the university which pays your salary to support its research? Put yourself on a desert island, with no taxes, and you wouldn't have your job. If you really think it's theft, you have two ways of avoiding paying taxes: (1) don't work, or (2) move to the Bahamas. Dave Sherman -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave