We seem to be drawing out Dickensian social conciences here.

wcm
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> In a message dated 5/18/00 8:49:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> >  Hard to put that aside, since Man is a social animal. One might just as
> >  sensibly ask why parents should be expected to pay for the costs of raising
> >  their own children.
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>     Oddly enough, because of their own choice (or carelessness) they created
> the children and they are indeed THEIR children, not society's or the state's.
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> >  If by "economically productive" you mean working class, as I assume you
> >  must, then the working class don't pay tax, capitalists pay all taxes out
> >  of surplus value.
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>     By "economically productive" I mean anyone from a ditch digger to a CEO.
> I suspect you have some esoteric theory, but you will have to explain why you
> say I, as a member of the working class, am NOT paying taxes when I am forced
> to send in or have expropriated from my paycheck, income for which I have
> exchanged my labor and a portion of my life. :-)
> Yours,
> Issodhos
>