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Taxation is Over, If You Want It

A striking interview with Harry Reid

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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That was some little trick Reid played, forcing the argument into a discussion of the word voluntary instead of the issue of coersion. But now that it's in plain sight, people can see Reid for the crafty person he is.

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