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To: thames_sider who wrote (10569)2/1/2006 7:33:40 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543887
 
To be sure, the reductio ad absurdam is that any and every penny spent by any government is 'socialism': because you are removing an asset (tax money) from an individual and deciding centrally, i.e. by the government, how to spend it.

I didn't say that. That's a straw man.

Taxing for the military or parks or jails is not socialistic. Taxing for welfare is socialistic.


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