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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: pezz who wrote (22)8/19/2000 2:58:49 PM
From: Kelvin Taylor  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
The federal income tax is perhaps the most egregious example of contempt for private property rights. Every American is duty-bound to pay his share of constitutionally mandated functions of the federal government as enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution.

But those functions account for less than one-third of Washington's spending. Most spending represents taking what one citizen earns and giving it to another citizen to whom it does not belong -- e.g., farm subsidies, food stamps, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and welfare.

An observation made by Frederic Bastiat, a 19th century French philosopher-economist: "A man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave."

That's the essence of slavery: one person forcibly used to serve the purposes of others. In order to one person to receive a monetary benefit that money must be taken, without permission, from someone else.

We have all become slaves to a parental government. But we can only blame ourselves for demanding services and money from Washington instead of being responsible for our own financial lives.
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