[ale] OT: Taxing issues

[Jim Philips]

The way I understand it, you should have gotten a URL to follow when you got 
the invitation e-mail. If you click on that, it should give you a chance to 
join in. I haven't been invited before, so I haven't been through the 
process.

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 12:38 pm, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Jim Philips wrote:
> > Qhatever happens, if people want to use the blog, it's at:
> >
> > http://www.mindspring.com/~jcphil/blogger.html
>
> I tried this, and it was somewhat frustrating to use, so I
> gave up on it. (By this, I mean I couldn't figure out,
> within 60 seconds of opening the page, how to post something
> the way I wanted to :-) If someone wants to insert this
> message into the blog, feel free.
>
>
>
> Charles, I thought about your list of questions
> about criminal acts a lot. Here was my first response:
>
> """
> Whether or not things *should* (in any absolute sense) be
> illegal doesn't seem meaningful to me; legality is defined
> by society, and as a participant in our society one
> is obligated to play by those rules as defined.
> In our society, it's illegal for an individual
> to take my money away from me, but it's legal for the
> society to do so for some purposes, and as a member of that
> society I accept it, because I see the maintenance of
> our civilization to be as important as individual rights
> (since without civilized society the concept of individual
> rights is meaningless IMO).
> """
>
> After a bit of thought, I'm not sure that response is
> really pertinent, so let me ask you this: how would
> you propose to solve the tax issue? Why is your way
> not undermined by the same argument you use to undermine
> income or sales tax (the argument about criminal acts
> I mean; let's leave Constitutionality out of the
> question for the moment)? Do you believe that individual
> rights should always trump societal concerns? (If so,
> it's probably not going to be useful for us to continue
> this discussion.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Joe
>
> > On Wednesday 24 April 2002 07:23 am, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > > Well, I sent the rest of my replies privately, then posted them to the
> > > BLOG that Jim Philips set up...
> > >
> > > If it really is OK to use this list, then should I repost those replies
> > > here?
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:37 PM
> > > > To: Joseph A Knapka
> > > > Cc: Charles Marcus; Ale (E-mail)
> > > > Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Taxing issues
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I just set a filter on "OT: Taxing issues" to dump all of this
> > > > traffic to a new OT:ale folder in evolution.
> > > >
> > > > :)
> > >
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