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Old May 12, 2011 | 6:55 am
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jarusoba
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Treat them like highway robbers. If you were asked to surrender all your stuff at gunpoint, would you do it? If you don't, you could risk being killed.

It's not as severe, but it's analogous.

Highway robbery is wrong and illegal. Charging a tax or duty is wrong but legal.

Too bad the society has made these wrong things right. And have educated the mass to believe that it's one's duty to be robbed when taking one's belonging from one place to another.

Similar to money printing/counterfeiting. It's illegal if done by any individual but it's legal and necessary if it's done by the US Federal Reserve.
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