Taxation is Over, If You Want It
Jan Helfeld at Free Liberal-I hope he wouldn't be offended if I call him the Libertarian Borat-has an uproarious interview with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just up.
HELFELD: If the government is in the business of forcefully taking money from some people in order to pay for the welfare of others, how will the people whose wealth is being taken feel about the government?
REID: Well, I don't accept your phraseolgy. I don't think we force.
HELFELD: Taxation is not forceful?
REID: Well, no. In fact, quite to the contrary. Our system of government is a voluntary tax system.
It goes on like this.
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