[Vision2020] Taxpayer Rights

[Donovan Arnold]

Hansen,
   
  Can you expand upon your comments that no man has the right to disobey a law?
   
  Best,
   
  Donovan

Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
        v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Yes, Arnold.  For the umpteenth time, it is called “RULE BYMAJORITY” enforced by the “social contract” enacted in 1789.  This “social contract” (Constitution) can be amended by a MAJORITY vote in both the House and Senate and ratified by 75% of the states.  When bills are proposed and successfully processed as I have just detailed, “we the people” define how we are to be governed.
   
  Enough said.
   
  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho
   
    "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007) 

      
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  From: Donovan Arnold [mailto:donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:54 PM
To: Tom Hansen; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Taxpayer Rights

   
    Hansen writes:

     

    "If limits were to be imposed against the “democratic majority”, how would it be decided who imposes these limitations?"

     

    How about a social contract (Constitution) and Judicial Branch that limits what the majority can force the minority to do, unalienable rights that cannot be voted away, even by a 9/10 majority? In cases of taxes, how about a limit of 50% of one's total earned wealth? How about an alternative MAXIMUM taxed limit so you got something left?

     

    "Nobody has the right to hand-pick which laws they will abide by and which laws (or zoning codes) they will ignore, not even the minority."

     

    They don't? So a slave has no right to freedom if the majority says he/she does not? You have no right to oppose the will of the majority that may wish to euthanize your wife or mother? How about infanticide, murder, or torture of animals? Are there no moral or ethical values which you see as being above the law written by humans?

     

    Slavery in your view then, was right, and slaves had no right to object or flee their society created social roles handed to them by the vote of the majority?

     

    Interesting perspective, please elaborate Hansen.

     

    Best,

     

    Donovan

     

    

Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

      Arnold stated:

     

    “Am I wrong to think that there should be some limits placed on what the democratic majority can do to the minority taxpayer that just feels completely robbed and stripped of the fruits of their hard labor?”

     

    If limits were to be imposed against the “democratic majority”, how would it be decided who imposes these limitations?

     

    It is really very, very simple.  The very foundation of our government is utilitarian in concept, the belief that most of the people know what is best for most of the people most of the time – rule by majority.

     

    Nobody has the right to hand-pick which laws they will abide by and which laws (or zoning codes) they will ignore, not even the minority.

     

    Seeya round town, Moscow.

     

    Tom Hansen

    Moscow, Idaho

     

    "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

- Abbie Hoffman 

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