[fabian]

Well, you did not refute any of my valid points as far as the taxation. The blacks were fully taxed, so to speak, as slaves...we now are about 20-50% taxed and if you try not paying some of it, you will go to jail and lose your property. And the slave owners did not regularly use the blacks wages to kill unborn babies; ie, tax payer funded planned parenthood.

[nathanbedford]

Good God man is it necessary to articulate to you the difference between human bondage and legal obligation?

Is it necessary to articulate the difference between committing a crime and being incarcerated for that and being incarcerated for your human condition?

Is it necessary to articulate the difference between a choice one has to pay a tax and the lack of choice one has when he is a slave?

Is it necessary to articulate the difference between one who chooses to work and create the conditions which obligate one to pay a tax and those who have no choice but must work because they are slaves without any recompense whatsoever?

Is it necessary to articulate the difference between those in a representative democracy who can vote their taxes in or out and slaves who have no vote concerning their freedom or the conditions of their servitude?

Remember, we did not wage a war against taxation, we waged a war against taxation without representation.