[191] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: SAVE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sourav K. Mandal)
Mon Apr 23 02:52:00 2001
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From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:51:40 -0400
"Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> Without taxes the government has no income. Without income the
> government has no authority.
I question this assertion. If a government is supposed to have the
consent of the governed, why would it have to force its citizens to pay
up? The current situation is nothing more than a protection racket. I
would be happy with the situation prior to the advent of the income tax
and the Fed (ca. 1900), when the only interventions in the economy were
the printing of money and the implementation of tariffs, as mandated by
the Constitution.
BTW, the general formulation of Objectivism reject both definitions of
anarchy. Freedom is a precondition to capitalism, and an objective,
overarching defense of freedom requires a government.
Sourav
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