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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (12384)	7/20/2001 6:22:11 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

It was recognized universally that no one had the "right" to another's private wealth. It was considered common knowledge that the government had no authority to tax a person's income, the fount of their livelihood. And the consent was not so common even back then. When the government started making noises of levying a "whisky tax" many were ready to take up arms and cried out that the Revolution was being betrayed. If they could only see our government today.