Thread: Dirt poor?
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Old 04-05-2004, 01:45 PM   #150
jaguar
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I love the way you attempt to justify robbery because it is teh "will of the people". If one person robs you with a gun, it's robbery. If a gang of 10 people rob you it's still robbery. And if 250 million people rob you at the point of a gun and call themselves "government" it is STILL robbery and claiming that it's "the will of the people" doesn't change shit.
Bullshit. You've chosen to live in a democratic state where clearly the majority support income tax, if they didn't they'd vote in someone who didn't. By making that choice (and noone's putting a gun to your head are they), you choose to accept that nation's laws. Whether or not the constitution allows it or not is utterly irrelevant. It's called realpolitik, something all your ideas lack sorely. Don't like it move somewhere that suits you, don't try and claim it's moral to overthrow a democratically elected state because YOU don't like the laws.

I've made active choices not to live in countries for reasons of law before, you don't see me say, advocating armed overthrow of France for not allowing public photography.

It's called the tyranny of the majority, if you don't like it, move somewhere where you are the majority or a dictatorship where you won't have the choice anyway.
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