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[Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk>]

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
 and argue that the government doesn't
> have the right to take money from the rich and use it to provide  
> services for the poor.

It doesn't.

> Each neighborhood could withhold taxes that go to the police and fire  
> and hire their own security guards.  Of course, rich neighborhoods  
> would be well protected, and the poor wouldn't get any protection,  
> but 

Nothing stops people from voluntarily contributing to communal
systems for providing services where the "rich" subsidize things
for the "poor."


> why does the government have a right to take money from the rich  
> and give it to undeserving poor people?

It doesn't.


TTYL,


Phil
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it; and his anger was kindled; and the
fire of the LORD burnt among them, and
consumed them that were in the uttermost
parts of the camp. Numbers 11:1
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