Re: The Phoenix has landed!

In article <q3bp34p77iolr3bakhtr4aft7qp3tp4h6s@xxxxxxx>,
Free Lunch <lunch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 27 May 2008 20:39:21 -0400, "Robert J. Kolker"
<bobkolker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

coaster wrote:

By this measure then something as simple as an uneven distribution of
wealth is tantamount to slavery.

Not at all. No one is making your work.

A black slave who did not work was flogged and perhaps killed.

But you equate the collection of taxes to enslavement.

Exactly the point I was trying to make upthread. He has process of law,
the right to own property the rights to which the government will
support, the right to make contracts.

Frankly compared to the drug laws the taxes for the space program are
totally insignificant and not worth spending electrons on even from a
Libertarian point of view. I mean we allow people to sign up for the
military who are not even old enough to be trusted with marijuana. I
think that both rights should be granted at the age of 36.

--
What is done in the heat of battle is (normatively) judged
by different standards than what is leisurely planned in
comfortable conference rooms.

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