Posts by Iain 2 publicly visible posts • joined 5 May 2008
The American constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion, the corollary to that is that American's are free to believe and speak any old tosh, and many of them do.
Can't have one without the other unfortunately.
However, that doesn't mean that people who don't share your beliefs are somehow bound to accept them.
"We say that New York has a right to its tax money. "
Ah, right to tax money, interesting. What about the "no taxation without representation" rule? If NY charges out of state sellers and individuals tax, then surely those selfsame individuals should be entitled to a vote in the New York elections? Or is that assuming that taxes are levied on citizens as way of providing services for those selfsame citizens, up to and including a vote on how and by whom those services are provided?
There does seem to be this peculiar ideas that governments (UK, US and US state governments) can just tax people 'because they can' without accountability or providing services for the money they extort (sorry, levy).
Gordon Brown, please take note
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