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To: TimF who wrote (3245)11/2/2002 5:20:06 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 7689
 
"What keeps my relationship with the government from being arbitrary? Well to a large extent it is. The government is limited by the constitution and by its own laws"

The complete opposite of arbitrary.

"but the constitution and the laws are often bent out of shape"

Changing the law and the Constitution is not arbitrary.

"but there is no guarantee"

Not of anything. We agree on that, at least.

"People use their equal voices in a free society and then those who disagree with the minority decision get the majority opinion force on them"

Only if they are criminals. Most people who disagree with one of myriad details of social life still honour their commitment to the democratic process which, ipso facto, entails both agreement and disagreement.

"If you take from those who work and/or invest and give to those who don't you lower the incentive to create wealth. Of course some people can't work but you can have some form of safety net for those people without having an extensive welfare state."

That is wild! How do you have a safety net without the complicity of those who work?! And how does providing a safety net lower the incentive to create wealth??

"which is why I argue for the same percentage."

I thought you understood that the same percentage is not fair. If I have one pair of shoes and the tax rate on those shoes is 50%, then I would have to walk around with one foot bare. You, on the other hand, with ten pairs odf shoes, could wear a different pair every day of the week. Obviously I would end up stealing your car, and you would end up supporting me in prison which would cost you about 1311 pairs of shoes.

"Yes, she faced no coercion"

Hell is not coercion?? Then why keep threatening it??
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