by Becky Akers
Pretend you're at church for Morning Worship, or attending a crowded lecture, or watching Hollywood's latest with a few hundred other fans. Suddenly, a SWAT team breaks down the door, submachine guns at the ready. Amid screams, their commander shouts, "Listen up! We're gonna kill 10% of you -- but the mayor was very clear that we gotta be fair about it. So, how ya wanna do this? Should we draw names out of a hat? Go through and shoot every tenth person? Maybe we oughta just work our way down from oldest and sickest until we get to 10%. Or ya want us to take volunteers first? I'm open to suggestions."
Yep, this is insane. Ditto if the mayor merely commanded the SWATters to rape rather than murder 10% of the audience. There is no "fair" way to commit such heinous crimes.
Why then do we insist there's a "fair" way to steal -- or, in the State's euphemism, to tax? Whatever we call it, taking money from people against their will violates both the Eighth Commandment and the Golden Rule. And it's always, everywhere a crime -- unless committed on the government's behalf. Our Rulers speciously exempt their employer, benefactor and god from its own rules.
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