Re: Rasmussen: Hope for a stronger economy has declined – What They

On 1/11/2010 3:07 PM, smorgas @&*$?%board.net wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:19:08 -0500, Beam Me Up Scotty
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/11/2010 12:44 PM, smorgas @&*$?%board.net wrote:
>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:12:30 -0500, Beam Me Up Scotty
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You have a duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to pay taxes
>>>>
>>>> …but *NOT* to pay for unconstitutional expenditures. My moral
>>>> obligation and duty is to uphold the constitution as I understand it.
>>>
>>> Wrong
>>>
>>> YOU don’t get to interpret it—for the nation
>>>
>>
>> Using your analogy, we would still have slavery.
>
> Slavery was never morally justified by southern conservatives—even
> tho they passed laws that said so, and the rule of law required a
> 2/3rds consensus to change it.
>
> The point is that the interpretation of the constitution finally
> caught up with the civilization and changed it—even tho today your
> same political ideology is pissed about it.
>

“The point is that the interpretation of the constitution finally
caught up” with the civilization and why *NOW* is your interpretation
more valid than mine, maybe some day you will catch up to the reality
that you are a thief and you steal from people under the guise of being
egalitarian.

> For example—inclusion of the “states rights” plank whining about the
> federal ‘gummint” forcing it on them

If slavery was wrong and it was constitutional, were the slaves and non
slave owners under a duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to
follow the laws and promote slavery as the law of the land and the
correct moral choice?

> As for Taxation, the founders had no problem with it—why should you?

The founders had no problem adding slavery to the constitution…. I
guess you and they, are not infallible.

In the end, right will always be right. Slavery is never good and
stealing is never good. The fact that you have government on your side
is an empty argument.

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