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To: Vicomte13
In a democracy, we are collectively the King...

In our Republic we are each individually a king.
The responsibility is to my own home as my castle.
The only charity is in my private function as you say.

As for Social Security, Medicare or Unemployment, I will cash those checks because that is the system that I am compelled to tolerate until I can change it. I am against withholding tax and several other taxes also but I will still pay them.

That's also why Southern Moonshiners were so against revenuers.
It was an illegal tax on private production.

71 posted on 03/15/2006 6:59:07 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken.)
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To: higgmeister

Just as a hypothetical question, can the government tax you on private property (as in, property you bought and OWN). If so, why?


72 posted on 03/15/2006 7:17:00 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (Hitler and Stalin have nothing on Abortion)
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To: higgmeister

"In our Republic we are each individually a king.
The responsibility is to my own home as my castle.
The only charity is in my private function as you say."

Oh, clearly not.
The King has the power of the sword, not just to make rules, but to use violence in order to force those who do not want to obey the rules to obey. That is the fundamental difference between the King and a private citizen in his home. Yes, you may exclude other people from entering your property (to an extent), but no, you may not kill anybody on your property even if he does break your rules there, except to defend your own or others' life and limb. The King's Peace and the King's Law runs onto your private property everywhere. Always has.

We are not individually kings in any sense. We may be noble lords on our own property, but we are still subject to the laws of the King.

The public and private function is separate.

Sure you have a responsibility to your own home as your castle. But you are also responsible for the collective defense of the whole nation, for paying taxes and serving if necessary, even against your will. Because you're not individually a King at all, but a subject of a nation. A Lord of the Manor? Yes. But a King? No. The national power is the King. In a democracy, we each have a hundred-millionth part or so of the power of the Crown. Collectively, we exert it, and are responsible for it.

We can't shirk that duty, rightly, for a Christian duty it is, just like our duty to our own families. It's a more diffuse and less all-encompassing burden, but it's a burden. Taxes are an inevitable part of it. And there's a separate obligation to charity in the individual and in the King. We have to do both, if we are a Christian state anyway.



73 posted on 03/15/2006 8:02:53 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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