In article <nejo24tckslc5t5t0kpo8re1m78f0drlnv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> If we want them to pay taxes, then we have no morally justifiable
>>> alternative.
>>False. The justification for taxes is TANSTAAFL.
>>If people want to access the goods and services of the government
>>that are funded by taxes, then they must pay taxes. Noone gets
>>a free ride.
>King George thought that Americans ought to help pay for the war
>against the French and the Indians that Britain fought on our behalf
>based on that principle. The colonists felt otherwise, since they had
>no vote, the result was a noted Tea Party and then a revolution. Your
>viewpoint lost.
If King George had given each colony two representatives
in the huge House of Commons, this would have ended the
action then and there, and the colonies would only have
token representation. It was clearly the expectation of
those who wrote the Constitution that the representatives
of the individual districts would represent the interests
of the people in the district; they did not believe in
political parties, which were in fact pushed by Jefferson.
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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
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