mc: First off, if government power to tax is not to be trusted in this one small area, where do you, and people like you, get off telling me that I should appreciate paying "my" taxes for other things, and that if I don't like it I should avoid using "our" roads, schools, and bridges?
Now you're going off on a self-justifying, jargon-laden tangent.
mc: If voting is such a privilege, why shouldn't everyone pay for it?
Because it's not a privilege. It's a right, and a damned important one.
MC:If government power cannot be trusted not to turn a nominal fee for an ID card into an odious tool for the disenfranchisement for a significant number of people, why is it that it IS to be implicitly trusted to administer any other taxation and regulation scheme?
You seem to be claiming here that the fact a system is imperfect (as all systems are) and capable of being abused (as all systems are) means that the system should be eliminated completely. You could just as easily point to an innocent man being convicted as an argument for eliminating law enforcement entirely. Are you on board with the idea of disbanding police departments and DA offices?
mc: Are you seriously suggesting that the name of the department on the brass plate on the bureaucrats' office doors dictate the character of those within, that there are occupational exceptions to human nature?
I really have no idea what you're ascribing to me here. Once more, in English?
mc: Why should anyone be "encouraged to vote"?
Because voting the foundation of our political system. It's a right for which people have fought and died.
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Re: The political sphere is a funhouse.
Date: 10/9/11 18:41 (UTC)Now you're going off on a self-justifying, jargon-laden tangent.
mc: If voting is such a privilege, why shouldn't everyone pay for it?
Because it's not a privilege. It's a right, and a damned important one.
MC:If government power cannot be trusted not to turn a nominal fee for an ID card into an odious tool for the disenfranchisement for a significant number of people, why is it that it IS to be implicitly trusted to administer any other taxation and regulation scheme?
You seem to be claiming here that the fact a system is imperfect (as all systems are) and capable of being abused (as all systems are) means that the system should be eliminated completely. You could just as easily point to an innocent man being convicted as an argument for eliminating law enforcement entirely. Are you on board with the idea of disbanding police departments and DA offices?
mc: Are you seriously suggesting that the name of the department on the brass plate on the bureaucrats' office doors dictate the character of those within, that there are occupational exceptions to human nature?
I really have no idea what you're ascribing to me here. Once more, in English?
mc: Why should anyone be "encouraged to vote"?
Because voting the foundation of our political system. It's a right for which people have fought and died.