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Re: Fair Tax?
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Originally Posted by Cato
liberty1776, how do you propose the government acquire the funds it needs to fulfill its Constitutional obligations if not through taxation (which it has always been Contitutionally authorized to do)?
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Exactly! Now you are seeing my conclusions: End government.
Jefferson wrote that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. I beleive in this statement. I never gave my consent to the US government for it to tax me. Therefor, it is unjust for me to be taxed.
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-Thomas Jefferson in his first inauguration address
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