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To: jrherreid
Ookay--so, the government should just hold monthly bake sales in order to raise funds?

The government has no more right to appropriate funds than you or I do? Can you go to a bake sale and take as many cakes as you want, simply because you need them? If not, then what justifies your hiring IRS agents to come to my door and take my cakes, just because you need them?

There is an alternative to theft. It's called working to earn the capital required to afford the things you need or desire. There is no reason that governments should not have to earn their keep, just as anyone else must. After all, the government is just the agent of the individual persons who are its citizens.

11 posted on 04/16/2002 3:18:22 PM PDT by sourcery
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To: sourcery
After all, the government is just the agent of the individual persons who are its citizens.

Exactly. And if you know anyone who doesn't pay his agent, let me know. I'd like an agent that works for free, too.

12 posted on 04/16/2002 3:21:29 PM PDT by jrherreid
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