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Re: Fair Tax?
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Originally Posted by Evil_inKarlate
"Pay us this amount, or we will variously take away your freedom, your vehicle, your house, and/or appreciably more money than we're currently demanding." Does this sound like something consentual?
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What it sounds like is an honest presentation of your choices. Just like the choices you are offered by every other law. By your definition every restriction of freedom is theft. In fact by your definition society itself is theft of freedom. And that broad a definition of theft robs the term of meaning.
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the utmost extremes of injustice and oppression.
Edward Gibbon
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