Letters to the Editor
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Duh?
In a free market, goods, services and money are exchanged through mutual agreement
And property is theft. Taxation is money exchanged for government services through mutual agreement. You got rerpresentation, such as it is. When a fire burns your town down because you voted for some Ron Paul Clowniac and your Fire Dept. shut down because you didn't levee taxes, don't come crying to Texas like those poor brown folks from New Orleans. We don't want you. You don't want to pay taxes? Buy your own damn island. Stop freeloading on the infrastructure your parents paid for. Get a better job. Ha!
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Anonymous, Defender of the Free Market
In a free market, goods, services and money are exchanged through mutual agreement, and we have contract law, among other means, to enforce the honesty and fairness of this.
I pay my taxes. Last time I checked I was left out of the negotiations with Halliburton.
A shame, really, as I have a lot to say on the subject....
"Honesty and fairness"?? Oh, that's rich (pun intended)!
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Anoncoward
and we have contract law, among other means, to enforce the honesty and fairness of this. So it "redistributes wealth" only in the sense that party A and party B agree to the "redistibution"--but always in consideration for some good or service .
And you dare to call me an "idjit"!
--Anonymous
Well shit fire, Anon, with all that "contract law, among other means, to enforce the honesty and fairness of this" I wonder where that 9,000,000,000 that disappeared in Iraq got off to. Oh well, it's all good, cause they's all fair and stuff. Namaste!
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Conservatives are morons.
I repeat, conservatives are morons.
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Oregon Kid
I saw pics of OBL many years ago in his early vid.
he looked like he had one foot in the grave. remeber he was on dialysis and had contracted a water-bourne illness which left him paralyzed.
Now how would someone in the mountains of Pakistan be getting dialysis?
Do any of us know how to interpret what was on those vids-language-wise?
It's highly circumspect that one comes out when Cheney/GW need a diversion.
Look at the timing of all of them.
Plus, with GW friends of the Bin Laden family--I imagine that would cause a great deal of strife between the 2-in terms of oil agreements with Saudi Arabia if GW DID actually go after OBL-as opposed to ,oh say.....Saddam Hussein..
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Tell that to the IRS
"Remember, the government owns no money of its own; it's all owned by the taxpayers."
Wrong. Government revenue belongs to the government. It may return some portion of this to taxpayers, but what it retains belongs to the government.
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If any of our founding fathers ever said taxation was theft, I've yet to come across it
I have heard a few of them say that property in land was theft, and I'm not even including Thomas Paine's explicit statements to that effect.
Anonymous thinks he should be allowed to freeload on the investment in infrastructure made by our parents while he degrades the infrastructure with his freeloading. Taxation is not theft. Property is theft. Ask the American indian.
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith
… legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property… Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to James Madison), 1785
While it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from Nature at all … it is considered by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no one has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land … Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.
Thomas Jefferson
Private property … is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.
Benjamin Franklin
All property, indeed, except the savage’s temporary cabin, his bow, his matchcoat and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the creature of public Convention. Hence, the public has the rights of regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the quantity and uses of it. All the property that is necessary to a man is his natural Right, which none may justly deprive him of, but all Property superfluous to such Purposes is the property of the Public who, by their Laws have created it and who may, by other Laws dispose of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Bamboo stick? You are asking for it, Mr.
Lead me not into temptation
I'd be tempted to call this obnoxious anonymous a libertarian, but I fear Mona's bamboo stick. Perhaps I'll just call him misinformed. That works just as well....
-- William Timberman
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Protect the chickens!
come to think of it, which came first, the chicken or the eggnog???
Because I can't live without eggnog.
Really.
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Xlp Thlplylp
Wrong. Government revenue belongs to the government. It may return some portion of this to taxpayers, but what it retains belongs to the government.
Well, that explains why my name wasn't on the invitation.
Um, no offense but, is it really healthy to have so few vowels in your handle?
Really, I'm very curious about this. My husband is Czech and they have a lot of impossible (for me) consonant runs too.
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I am thankful I was yodeling all day. skip. Don't read. Seriously.
Don't get me into this chicken business. I'd stop in the middle of the road if I were a chicken and get some rest.
I am just a psychotic reader who advises my psychiatrist, RPM & WT, to wiggle with a chicken across the Interstate I-70 West bound road.
Eat imitation chicken soup for a one-half cold. Carve chicken legs, breast, neck, and thighs from road killed foul. Better yet, twiddle a chicken into the shape of a chicken out of tofu? huh? Ask a duck.
My question is not whither or why...My advice is to eat ice cream sculptured chicken-pot-pie? What did the chicken and duck say about the crossing of the road? They must have cackle and quacked up. huh. It made no sense.
The coward chickens went psychotic and assumed all the methane blame for global warming. Anonymous is a chicken who thinks he's a toad that slipped on a banana peel hopping across a road. Now each smile is now perceived as a smirk.
Since wiggling across the road and slipping, Pedinska seems mad at misogynist and accuses shooter 242 of needing a root canal? I'd suggest Peggy just knock his teeth out? LWM is accused of always changing labels and also his underwear with W.T.. RMP wears spats. LWM spats.
W.T. speaks like a lindquist and tells Peggy the auto mechanic wants a date with a chicken? The auto mechanic shows the "journalist" and aspiring want-to-be presidents how to put up a car hood.
The chicken crossed to road to ask a anorexic neocon what was the pundit duck talking about? Nothing. I'm wondering if today can be declared a free-for-all therapy day where wayward and insane commenter's scream obscenities. We all need to be as wonderful as Pete the coward chicken hen? Duck!
Chicken informants tells me the NSA is memorized. Why? They have audio and tapes of neocons in the White House licking chicken feet and loyalist 'scribes' shoe souls.
I'm amazed to hear the neocons plucking chicken feather for Mr. Purdue in a Salisbury Maryland Pluck Factory on the midnight shift singing "Born Free." "Free as the Wind Blows!"
I'm shocked to read here that readers paste and cut articles that Anonymous sources report they saw Peggy Noonan in a homeless soup line having a bad hair day. GOPS waiting in the soup kitchen line steal salt shakers?
After a free meal sitting on the couch, WT and RMP ~ sat there for six hours petting fairy feathered foul chickens.
My yodel acquaintance say Salon readers scribble and write with little scratching chicken feet. Poor punctuation and ingles grammar don't matter. Many (me) squawk unintelligibly. The yodel Lady sings country and western music and will yodel to William Timberman for his kindness.
I'm too tired to be here. I'm all yodeled out.
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Philo said, "Be kind to everyone you meet. They are fighting a tough battle too." Pete the hen agrees.