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To: autumnraine

Slavery, as referenced in the 13th amendment, is a narrow legal term which does not encompass such things, unfortunately.

If that were the case, taxes would be slavery as well - an argument made by many Liberal economists, (such as my namesake). Unfortunately we do not, as a society, think this way.


18 posted on 03/19/2010 11:45:03 AM PDT by VonMisesPieces (Free Elections. Free Markets. Free Society.)
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To: VonMisesPieces

Taxes is forcing citizens to pay for society, even as much as we don’t want to.

This healthcare bill is forcing us to pay a third party/entity (health insurers) under threat of loss of freedom thereby ‘enslaving’ us to another entity. That is a huge difference.


19 posted on 03/19/2010 11:47:10 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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