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		<title>By: Gargi Dixit</title>
		<link>http://citizentom.com/2008/11/22/the-difference-between-taxation-and-robbery/#comment-15031</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;What is this money being used for?&lt;/i&gt;

The money grabbed forcibly from the producers is used for the most non-productive activities. These activities are mostly unnecessary yet when government takes charge of doing them, it appoints some people to those non-productive activities and then pays them. 
In this way government assumes that it is providing some jobs. Yet reality is, by doing so government culls out many possible jobs a free market without government may create and provide.
What the intervention of government through taxation is, it increases the cost of products to further height causing price rise, and hence making people further poor.

Have a look here about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reasonforliberty.com/reason/what-really-are-taxes.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;What really are Taxes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>What is this money being used for?</i></p>
<p>The money grabbed forcibly from the producers is used for the most non-productive activities. These activities are mostly unnecessary yet when government takes charge of doing them, it appoints some people to those non-productive activities and then pays them.<br />
In this way government assumes that it is providing some jobs. Yet reality is, by doing so government culls out many possible jobs a free market without government may create and provide.<br />
What the intervention of government through taxation is, it increases the cost of products to further height causing price rise, and hence making people further poor.</p>
<p>Have a look here about <a href="http://www.reasonforliberty.com/reason/what-really-are-taxes.html" rel="nofollow"><b>What really are Taxes</b></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shanu</title>
		<link>http://citizentom.com/2008/11/22/the-difference-between-taxation-and-robbery/#comment-15023</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read your blog.Liked it.Here is mine on the evils of taxation!

http://www.reasonforliberty.com/current-affairs/the-evils-of-taxation.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Read your blog.Liked it.Here is mine on the evils of taxation!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reasonforliberty.com/current-affairs/the-evils-of-taxation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.reasonforliberty.com/current-affairs/the-evils-of-taxation.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Citizen Tom</title>
		<link>http://citizentom.com/2008/11/22/the-difference-between-taxation-and-robbery/#comment-14639</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[kgotthardt - There is no separation between church and state.  Read again the First Amendment to the Constitution.  When governments make morally sound decisions, it is because the People allow their government to make relatively few decisions. Individuals have souls, not collectives and certainly not that giant collective we call the state.  The morality of government depends upon the People.

Go back and check your history books.  Look at the history of totalitarian states, the ones that gassed, starved, butchered and destroyed their own citizens by the tens of millions.  Did they not begin their reigns of terror by removing every vestige of religion from government.  Did that content the leaders?  No?  Why not?  What was God to those governments?  

Consider this quote.


&lt;blockquote&gt;The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianty&#039;s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity. Bolshevism practices a lie of the same nature, when it claims to bring liberty to men, whereas in reality it seeks only to enslave them. In the ancient world the relations between men and gods were founded on instinctive respect. It was a world enlightened by the idea of tolerance. Christianity was the first creed in the world to exterminate its adversaries in the name of love. Its key note is intolerance. Without Christianity, we should not have had Islam. The Roman Empire, under Germanic influence would have developed in the direction of world domination and humanity would not have extinguished fifteen centuries of civilization at a single stroke. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that was in the natural order of things.  -- Adolf Hitler, night 11-12 July 1941&lt;/blockquote&gt;

In the name of pagan pragmatism, the Roman Empire hanged Jesus Christ on a cross.  In the name of Godless tolerance, Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>kgotthardt &#8211; There is no separation between church and state.  Read again the First Amendment to the Constitution.  When governments make morally sound decisions, it is because the People allow their government to make relatively few decisions. Individuals have souls, not collectives and certainly not that giant collective we call the state.  The morality of government depends upon the People.</p>
<p>Go back and check your history books.  Look at the history of totalitarian states, the ones that gassed, starved, butchered and destroyed their own citizens by the tens of millions.  Did they not begin their reigns of terror by removing every vestige of religion from government.  Did that content the leaders?  No?  Why not?  What was God to those governments?  </p>
<p>Consider this quote.</p>
<blockquote><p>The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianty&#8217;s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity. Bolshevism practices a lie of the same nature, when it claims to bring liberty to men, whereas in reality it seeks only to enslave them. In the ancient world the relations between men and gods were founded on instinctive respect. It was a world enlightened by the idea of tolerance. Christianity was the first creed in the world to exterminate its adversaries in the name of love. Its key note is intolerance. Without Christianity, we should not have had Islam. The Roman Empire, under Germanic influence would have developed in the direction of world domination and humanity would not have extinguished fifteen centuries of civilization at a single stroke. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that was in the natural order of things.  &#8212; Adolf Hitler, night 11-12 July 1941</p></blockquote>
<p>In the name of pagan pragmatism, the Roman Empire hanged Jesus Christ on a cross.  In the name of Godless tolerance, Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews.</p>
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		<title>By: kgotthardt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But not everyone believes in souls....and we have separation of church and state.  Therefore, we can only deal with the tangible and do the best we can,IMHO.  

Abortion won&#039;t go away overnight.  That doesn&#039;t mean we shouldn&#039;t take small steps in that direction, though, does it?  If we don&#039;t, nothing will ever get done and it will just continue to be a problem.  Will the small steps be what we want them to be?  No.  Will they help eradicate abortion?  Eventually.  And then eventually we could move even further away by eradicating the need for something like the day after pill.  However, to do that, we will also have to eradicate horrors such as rape and incest.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But not everyone believes in souls&#8230;.and we have separation of church and state.  Therefore, we can only deal with the tangible and do the best we can,IMHO.  </p>
<p>Abortion won&#8217;t go away overnight.  That doesn&#8217;t mean we shouldn&#8217;t take small steps in that direction, though, does it?  If we don&#8217;t, nothing will ever get done and it will just continue to be a problem.  Will the small steps be what we want them to be?  No.  Will they help eradicate abortion?  Eventually.  And then eventually we could move even further away by eradicating the need for something like the day after pill.  However, to do that, we will also have to eradicate horrors such as rape and incest.</p>
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		<title>By: Citizen Tom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[kgotthardt - We play games with words.  How?  Most often, I think, we use that fine distinction between definition of a word and what the word connotes.  It appears to me that in your mind doctrine is about splitting hairs.  So you would have us be pragmatic, results oriented rather than doctrinaire.  That approach is fraught with danger.  Unchecked, pragmatism leads us to practice the belief that the result (the end) justifies the means.  

Moral doctrine (such as Christianity) helps us to understand the difference between good and evil.  Doing good improves our situation and the situation of those around us.  Doing evil, while it may seem to temporarily improve our situation, is ultimately destructive to both those around us and ourselves.  No matter how good our intentions may be, when we choose evil means, we achieve an evil end.  That is why those who live by the sword almost invariably die by the sword. 

When does a baby deserve our protection?  Is it at birth or is it at conception?  Is there a soul?  When do we gain a soul?  That dear lady is a religious question.  No amount of pragmatism can change that fact.  Thus your pragmatic advocacy of the day after pill is unavoidably a doctrinal issue.  Even though you believe otherwise, this advocacy is simply based upon your doctrinal belief.  

Does pragmatism have a place in this matter?  Yes.  That is because there are limits as to what we can do.  Even if it were possible to make abortion illegal, it is unlikely any jury would convict.  So as a practical matter, government can only regulate this matter.  Government can also refuse to fund and thereby refuse to condone abortions.  

Those who have had and who perform abortions have no right to demand that their fellow citizen condone their actions.  Unfortunately, one misdeed often leads to another.

What is true about government is that none of us has the right to use government to merely to inflict our religious beliefs upon others.  However, because governing invariably involves moral choices, there is no way to set aside our religious beliefs.  When does a baby gain a soul?  That is a question of religious doctrine.  So each abortion must worry our conscious, and no amount of pragmatism can change that fact.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>kgotthardt &#8211; We play games with words.  How?  Most often, I think, we use that fine distinction between definition of a word and what the word connotes.  It appears to me that in your mind doctrine is about splitting hairs.  So you would have us be pragmatic, results oriented rather than doctrinaire.  That approach is fraught with danger.  Unchecked, pragmatism leads us to practice the belief that the result (the end) justifies the means.  </p>
<p>Moral doctrine (such as Christianity) helps us to understand the difference between good and evil.  Doing good improves our situation and the situation of those around us.  Doing evil, while it may seem to temporarily improve our situation, is ultimately destructive to both those around us and ourselves.  No matter how good our intentions may be, when we choose evil means, we achieve an evil end.  That is why those who live by the sword almost invariably die by the sword. </p>
<p>When does a baby deserve our protection?  Is it at birth or is it at conception?  Is there a soul?  When do we gain a soul?  That dear lady is a religious question.  No amount of pragmatism can change that fact.  Thus your pragmatic advocacy of the day after pill is unavoidably a doctrinal issue.  Even though you believe otherwise, this advocacy is simply based upon your doctrinal belief.  </p>
<p>Does pragmatism have a place in this matter?  Yes.  That is because there are limits as to what we can do.  Even if it were possible to make abortion illegal, it is unlikely any jury would convict.  So as a practical matter, government can only regulate this matter.  Government can also refuse to fund and thereby refuse to condone abortions.  </p>
<p>Those who have had and who perform abortions have no right to demand that their fellow citizen condone their actions.  Unfortunately, one misdeed often leads to another.</p>
<p>What is true about government is that none of us has the right to use government to merely to inflict our religious beliefs upon others.  However, because governing invariably involves moral choices, there is no way to set aside our religious beliefs.  When does a baby gain a soul?  That is a question of religious doctrine.  So each abortion must worry our conscious, and no amount of pragmatism can change that fact.</p>
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