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Old 07-15-2019, 03:17 PM
 
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Old 07-15-2019, 07:42 PM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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Taxation is theft. Now it's like we're living under King George III all over again.

What was that quote from Thomas Jefferson about watering the Tree of Liberty?
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Old 07-15-2019, 08:03 PM
 
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Taxation is theft. Now it's like we're living under King George III all over again.

What was that quote from Thomas Jefferson about watering the Tree of Liberty?
Owning slaves was Jefferson's theft.
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Old 07-15-2019, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Montreal
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Owning slaves was Jefferson's theft.
I see what you did there, Harpaint.

You told a truth that unharnessed the poor sunvabidge and threw him off his saddle of untruth. There.
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Old 07-15-2019, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Taxation is theft. Now it's like we're living under King George III all over again.

What was that quote from Thomas Jefferson about watering the Tree of Liberty?
Spare us with the melodramatic bumper sticker slogans that wouldn't even convince the village idiot you are serious.

It is not theft if you receive something in return. In reality, we all receive from the government protection (police/fire) and a commitment to justice. We also receive education, healthcare, transportation, safe food and enforcement of contracts.
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Old 07-15-2019, 10:52 PM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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Spare us with the melodramatic bumper sticker slogans that wouldn't even convince the village idiot you are serious.

It is not theft if you receive something in return. In reality, we all receive from the government protection (police/fire) and a commitment to justice. We also receive education, healthcare, transportation, safe food and enforcement of contracts.
Speaking of bumper stickers, it's posts like yours that keep the bumper sticker makers in business.
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Old 07-16-2019, 10:39 AM
 
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Spare us with the melodramatic bumper sticker slogans that wouldn't even convince the village idiot you are serious.

It is not theft if you receive something in return. In reality, we all receive from the government protection (police/fire) and a commitment to justice. We also receive education, healthcare, transportation, safe food and enforcement of contracts.
Do you believe we are getting our money's worth? I certainly don't. Fix that before giving up more of your hard earned money.
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Old 07-16-2019, 02:44 PM
 
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Nothing =\= money's worth

Your premise is not accurate. If you don't believe you're getting your money's worth (whatever that means to you) then move and/or volunteer to make whatever changes you feel are necessary to get your money's worth.
I do. I voice my concern and vote accordingly.

Cool troll account by the way.

Bye Felicia!

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Old 07-16-2019, 03:06 PM
 
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It is not theft if you receive something in return. In reality, we all receive from the government protection (police/fire) and a commitment to justice. We also receive education, healthcare, transportation, safe food and enforcement of contracts.
Speaking of bumper stickers...
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Old 07-16-2019, 07:36 PM
 
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Owning slaves was Jefferson's theft.

Not true.

The painful truth for modern African-Americans is that their ancestors were enslaved by Africans. Africans had been enslaving other Africans for millennia before Europeans arrived on the subsaharan portion of the continent.

When they did arrive, Europeans discovered they could buy slaves from Africans. So they did so. At worse, Jefferson was guilty of buying stolen property. It was Africans who engaged in theft.

An additional painful truth: It was European colonialists who abolished slavery in Africa. So really, the colonialists were liberators.
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