Must not oppose taxes
Cornell professor writing in NYT says that opposition to taxes is like car stealing and vandalism:
"Anti-tax zealots denounce all taxation as theft, as depriving citizens of their right to spend their hard-earned incomes as they see fit. Yet nowhere does the Constitution grant us the right not to be taxed. Nor does it grant us the right to harm others with impunity. No one is permitted to steal our cars or vandalize our homes. Why should opponents of taxation be allowed to harm us in less direct ways?"
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And the guy is supposed to be an expert in ethics! Sounds like he could use some ethics himself. Or is free speech not ethical?
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And the guy is supposed to be an expert in ethics!
No, he is an economist who also is a co-director of a business ethics seminar. There is no indication that he is or claims to be a "expert in ethics."
However, he is not a person who understands the wording, history and basis of the Constitution. The Constitution is not there to demand what the people and citizens of the country may or may not do, but rather what limits the government has over the people.
The professor obviously believes that the government is the only entity that has the right to determine the path and lifestyles of the American people. The fact that the Constitution doesn't grant the government that authority escapes his thinking.
He sees the Constitution as a protector of the government from the people, when instead it is a protector of the people from the government.
And these are the people who teach our young. Any wonder why we're a mess?
The idea that I "deprive" someone else of their property by keeping money I earn is ABSURD.
Thanks for point this out.
Let's look at the tuition fees at Cornell.
Undergraduate: $37,750 per year.
Law School: $48,950 per year.
Veterinary medicine: $39,500 (non-resident)
http://www.dfa.cornell.edu/dfa/treasurer/bursar/studentsparents/tuition/
Maybe those tuition fees should be cut in half, as well as the salaries of the professors, maybe then they would understand the meaning of theft because high taxes are a form of government theft.
I don't see taxation as theft, I think its more like rape.
I'm with Anon 2:06
The consitution does not enumerate all the things that citizens have the right to be free of - nor could it. Nor could any document.
It limits governmental power to specific areas - not the reverse where freedoms are limited to specific areas. No-one could be free under such a system and everyone would be slaves.
The guy was clearly a moron.
And these are the people who teach our young. Any wonder why we're a mess?
All the more reason to homeschool our young, and keep them away from the insanity.
I don't see taxation as theft, I think its more like rape.
Rape, pillage, and plunder, like a band of pirates, robbing the people at the implied pointing of a gun.
Robert, they don't use guns. They use laws! (laws that they make)
Laws that are enforces at the local level but police with guns.
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Robert, they don't use guns. They use laws! (laws that they make)
Yes, laws backed by the might of guns. That's why I said the implied point of a gun.
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