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August 15, 2004
A Perfect Sentence
(by Nicholas Strakon): "...or maybe not. Leo Morris, an editorial writer for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, is a hemi-demi-semi-libertarian, and not too long ago he penned some urgings in favor of a state-tax amnesty (an amnesty from late-payment penalties, that is). They prompted a letter from a reader, published August 3, taking Morris to task for his liberality. The letter reads in part: "If tax cheats [sic] pay now with an amnesty, it proves they could have paid earlier. So they were deliberately not paying."
I detect a wee non sequitur there, of course, but that's not the important part. For a little later comes this perfect sentence -- perfect from the heuristic standpoint, I mean: "Not paying your taxes is stealing from the government which, ultimately, is you and me."
See how that elegantly concise formulation works? When you fail to surrender, at gunpoint, some of your honestly earned money to the gang calling itself "government," =you're= stealing from =them!= At the same time, one of the most grievous aspects of that "theft" is that you're really stealing from you and me, because under the democraziac ideology, somehow =we= are the government.
Hmmm. Perfectly heuristic it is, in succinctly demonstrating the totalitarian premises that are mother's milk to us now, but upon reflection I'm afraid it's less than perfectly logical. If it's really you and I, instead of that distant robber gang, who are the government, how in the world can we steal from ourselves? What if you kept all of what you earned and I kept all of what I earned? Where would the theft reside in that? Maybe there's some other guy, standing behind a door somewhere, who's =not= a part of the government; if we could just figure out who he is, maybe we could gang up on him and rob him, while warning him against theft.
This whole democracy deal turns out to be more complicated than I thought."
Reposted by permission from The Last Ditch at www.thornwalker.com/ditch © 2004 WTM Enterprises. All rights reserved.
Posted by Rob at August 15, 2004 03:26 PM
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