Then why have laws? Using your arguemnt, ANY law can be contstrued as legal extortion, can it not?
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Once upon a time, before the war powers act, and when income (wage based) > taxes were voluntary I could see his point. Now though? > > Just looks like legal extortion to me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:12 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Bush Administration considered overturning Constitution. > > > Would you consider not stealing a service to your country? Would you > consider not speeding a service to your country? > > People pay taxes because it is the law, not becks they want to or because > they feel a need to do 'service' for their country. They do it (well, most > of us) because, by law, we are required to. If you gave every one the > option of paying taxes and not suffering and legal or financial penalties, > how many do you think would continue to do so or do so at the same tax > rate? > > Sorry, I do not consider obeying the law as 'service to your country'. I > think it belittles the REAL service those in the military, emergency > services, etc are doing for their country. > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Scott wrote: > > > > > > I don't view paying taxes as a service to the country > > > > Interesting. Let's test your view. > > > > Starting today, nobody will pay taxes any more. Not city, not > > country, not state, not federal. > > > > What do you think would happen to the country if we did that? > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290758 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
