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Eric Dondero Sums It Up Nicely

Posted on | May 21, 2010 | 13 Comments

“Taxation is theft. Government is coercion, when you get right down to it. What right does the government have to put a gun to my head and steal from me to support some moocher who wants to sit on their damn couch all day long, munch on Cheetos and watch Oprah Winfrey?”

— Eric Dondero, LibertarianRepublican.net, in an e-mail
to Huffington Post douchenozzle Ben Cohen

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13 Responses to “Eric Dondero Sums It Up Nicely”

  1. Joe
    May 21st, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

    Well, government does have the right to tax you. But those taxes are supposed to go to a limited class of items: defense, road building, police, schools, etc.

    The problem is the class of items has gradually increased over the years and lately has just exploded. Not only are the expansion of items we are spending on questionable, but government is far less efficient or competent to offer this array of services.

    Welfare recipients mooching off the rest of us exists (and needs to be ended) but the biggest problem is us voting for more general entitlements such as Medicare, social security increases, bailouts, etc. This is unsustainable.

  2. Joe
    May 21st, 2010 @ 11:46 am

    Well, government does have the right to tax you. But those taxes are supposed to go to a limited class of items: defense, road building, police, schools, etc.

    The problem is the class of items has gradually increased over the years and lately has just exploded. Not only are the expansion of items we are spending on questionable, but government is far less efficient or competent to offer this array of services.

    Welfare recipients mooching off the rest of us exists (and needs to be ended) but the biggest problem is us voting for more general entitlements such as Medicare, social security increases, bailouts, etc. This is unsustainable.

  3. The Right Guy
    May 21st, 2010 @ 5:31 pm

    Well Joe, One, the government doesn’t have the right, it has the authority granted from us, two, that quote sounds more like me, but who is to quibble.

  4. The Right Guy
    May 21st, 2010 @ 12:31 pm

    Well Joe, One, the government doesn’t have the right, it has the authority granted from us, two, that quote sounds more like me, but who is to quibble.

  5. Count Vikula
    May 21st, 2010 @ 5:45 pm

    I agree with Dondero, but lately I feel I am trending toward a John Derbyshire perspective on the future. Those Oprah watchers can vote.

    Doooooom.

  6. Count Vikula
    May 21st, 2010 @ 12:45 pm

    I agree with Dondero, but lately I feel I am trending toward a John Derbyshire perspective on the future. Those Oprah watchers can vote.

    Doooooom.

  7. Live Free Or Die
    May 21st, 2010 @ 7:35 pm

    And democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.

    Doooooom.

  8. Live Free Or Die
    May 21st, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

    And democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.

    Doooooom.

  9. Joe
    May 21st, 2010 @ 7:47 pm

    Correct TRG, government has the authoritah. But we know where that can lead…

  10. Joe
    May 21st, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

    Correct TRG, government has the authoritah. But we know where that can lead…

  11. easyliving1
    May 22nd, 2010 @ 12:51 am

    “Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to the absurd”) is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications to a logical but absurd consequence.”

    Now, it’s a stupid argument for a leftist to say conservatives want zero taxes and zero government because “the governement is the problem, not the solution” in all cases, not just the “present” crisis Reagan spoke of decades ago. It’s a fallacious argument, as if advocating less taxes and smaller government in this environment (or what Reagan referred to) means one must always support less taxes and less government all the time, to the point there is no federal government to levy any tax.

    Real conservatives, of course, don’t support zero taxes and zero government, federal or otherwise.

    For to argue for zero taxes is to argue for: zero military funding, no roads built with tax funds. No cops nor courts. No America.

    No thanks.

  12. easyliving1
    May 21st, 2010 @ 7:51 pm

    “Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to the absurd”) is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications to a logical but absurd consequence.”

    Now, it’s a stupid argument for a leftist to say conservatives want zero taxes and zero government because “the governement is the problem, not the solution” in all cases, not just the “present” crisis Reagan spoke of decades ago. It’s a fallacious argument, as if advocating less taxes and smaller government in this environment (or what Reagan referred to) means one must always support less taxes and less government all the time, to the point there is no federal government to levy any tax.

    Real conservatives, of course, don’t support zero taxes and zero government, federal or otherwise.

    For to argue for zero taxes is to argue for: zero military funding, no roads built with tax funds. No cops nor courts. No America.

    No thanks.

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