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Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:00:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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You’re absolutely free to leave the country and move to an area that doesn’t
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collect taxes, and then you’ll have that much more money to donate to your
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favorite charitable institution. Etc.
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Et tu, Dave!?
This is the same “love it or leave it” crap that one normally hears from the
right. It is also a straw man, there is of course the alternative of simply
staying and trying to “improve” the system. Improve is in quotes because one
person’s improvements are seen by another as the ruination of the system.
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Hey, you stinker--I’ve told you before that if you don’t actually agree with
me, you’re supposed to pretend that you do. And anyway, I don’t use strawman
arguments--my fallacy was the false dilemma, thankyouverymuch. 8^)
Anyway, I didn’t quite mean it as love-it-or-leave-it. My intent was to show
that the obligation to pay taxes isn’t absolute. I was taking issue with the
assertion that the only alternatives are either to pay taxes or go to jail; at
least one other option is to exit the system.
For myself, I’d greatly prefer to improve the existing system than to flee to
terra incognita.
Dave!
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