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> Now I bought Maxim and Stuff, Hobbes' Leviathan, Lufia for the GBA and a
free
> speech related gift for my god daughter.  After this I end up with the GST
of
> 12.95 (oddly enough the Nats are the only ones engaging in the evil of
taxing
> print in this manner) and PST of 12.37 adding up to 25.32.  This I think
is an
> outrage.  This is freedom of speech being taxed.  If you asked me, at the
very
> least any speech and their publishers should have tax exempt status, more
so
> than any phoney charity designed for the benefit of a few board members
and it's
> chairman.  Perhaps maybe the friends of the organization.  Would this not
be
> better than giving them hand outs?  A words of writer should not banned
nor
> changed against his or her will, nor should it be taxed.  It's just a
matter of
> freedom.
> I wouldn't doubt if there's an additional hidden tax on drinks served at
peeler
> bars, that would be an outrage if found to be true.
>
> Art, Entertainment, and Humanity are expressions of the soul and the soul
is
> attached to religious elements, so should such things not be seperate of
the
> state?
>
> I think so.

I actually think this is a good post.





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> Aka The Pyromaniac of Madison County.
>
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> [Also said to be a multi-trilionare businessman and Navy SEAL]
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> scum, one should compare themselves to what they could be or
> what they were for that; the same could be said about feeling
> good about one self." -- G�l�k Buday, 2003 aka The Absent Mind
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>  "In revenge and in love. woman is more barbarous than
> man.". - Dr. F. Nietzsche
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> "As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore
> you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into
> barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles;
> reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep."
> -- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A: Yes, yes.  There is a natural law, and it does not consist
> either in doing harm to others or in rejoicing thereat. -- [FMA]
> Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Natural Law.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> An itinerant bookseller does not burden himself with a Virgil,
> with a Horace, but with a new book, even though it be
> detestible.  He draws a you aside and says to you: "Sir, do
> you want some books from Holland?"  [FMA] Voltaire; Phil.
> Dict. -- New Novelties (Trends and Fads to Prechew).
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Chance is a word void of meaning, nothing happens without a
> cause." -- Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Chance
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Cool, like popular, is a word that is often associated with
> self betrayal."  -- G�l�k Buday, 2003 aka The Absent Mind
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "When the poison's pusher uses the poison, you can be sure
> he has and has used the antidote."  -- G�l�k Buday, 2003
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his
> enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes
> a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work
> and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "There may not be an 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in Libertarian
> (in fact 2)" -- G�l�k Buday, April of 2002
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "...I would have wished that no one in the state that could claim
> he was above the law, and that no one from outside the state could
> dictate a law [Fuck the UN] that the state was obliged to recognize.
> For regardless of how the government is formally constituted, if
> there is a single man not subject to the law, all the others are
> necessarily at that man' mercy." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
> To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "...It follows that if in such a fortunate situation it (the country/
> state) would have nothing to fear but itself, and if citizens were
> trained in arms, it would be more for maintaining that soldiery
> spirit and noble courage that are so well suited for freedom and
> cultivate the taste for it rather than from the necessity for it's
> citizens' actual defence. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
> To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Freedom can only exist if all laws apply to all people." --
>  Jean-Jacques Rousseau; possible paraphrase.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Think, it's not illegal yet." -- George Clinton
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> "A Press That Is Not Free Isn't A Press At All" -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "A Government, Of All Things, Is To Be Questioned And
> Inspected" -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "At The Very Least, Insanity Isn't Unsanitary" -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "it is an abomination for a person's tax dollars to be used to
> further a faith to which he does not subscribe. You want to
> pray, go to church.  Nobody's objecting." -- Thomas
> Jefferson
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I am the first Prime Minister of this country of neither altogether
> English nor French origin.  So I determined to bring about a
> Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration."
> - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 29, 1958, Maclean's.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "We shall never build the nation which our potential resources
> make possible by dividing ourselves into Anglophones,
> Francophones, multiculturalphones, or whatever kind of
> phoneys you choose. I say: Americans, first, last,
> and always!" - G�l�k Buday, Purposely misquoting the
> Chief's Quote For His Own Agenda (2002).
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
> - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 11, 1958
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "As long as there is a drop of blood in my body they won't
> stop me from talking about freedom." - Prime Minister
> Diefenbaker, June 3, 1962, Sudbury, Ontario.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to
> and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of
> strong and provocative words." - Prime Minister Diefenbaker,
> April 9, 1970, House of Commons.
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> "I Am A Surrealists" -- What Salvador Dali Said When
> Asked Why He Didn't Belong To The Surrealists (this may
> be true, regarding why actors tend not to belong to the
> Group of Actors and Libertarians don't always belong to the
> Libertarian Party.)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I prefer to go to church, not have church come to me."
> -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "It's almost as if he [Bill Clinton] spent 8 years pissing all over
> the presidency and on his last day went, 'oh! missed a spot."
> -- Lewis Black on Rich Pardon, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Honesty Makes An Opinion Important, Dishonesty Makes
> It Irrelevant (unimportant even)" -- G�l�k Buday; 2002
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "An Opinion, Like An Axe, Is Only As Good As The Person
> Who Wields It." -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Value Of A Comment Derives From The Honesty Of
> The Orator And/Or Writer." -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Height Of Genius Is The Ability To Conceal It." --
> George Bernard Shaw
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Brevity is the soul of wit." -- William Shakespeare (hard to
> believe, I know.).
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "There Is A Difference Between Community Involvement and
> Being Involved (Or A Part Of) In A Community." -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were
> beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized.  I was
> to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
> reorganizing.  And what a wonderful method it can be for
> creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency,
> confusion and demoralization.  --  Gaius Petronius Arbiter,
> 1st century AD; Satyricon.
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> "If You Have A Lawsuit, Your Goods, Your Honor, Your Very
> Life Depends On The Very Interpretation Of A Book You Never
> Read." -- Francois "Voltaire" Marie Arouet; Phil. Dictionary.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Suppression Of A Word Is What Gives It Power." --
> Lenny Bruce.
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> "Window Peepers, Authoritarians In General, Tend To Be The
> Biggest Scoundrels." -- G�l�k Buday
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Sometimes, It's Not A Good Idea To Listen For, But A Good
> Question." -- G�l�k Buday.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Small Government's A Start" -- G�l�k Buday.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Funny how diversity is ok unless it's of opinion or philosophical."
>  -- G�l�k Zolt�n Leenderdt Franco Buday; On "Divisive Opinions
> and Issues;" December 2nd, 2002.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I rather have one competant employee, than a million incompetent
> ones, one competent something than a million incompetent
> something; and criminality counts as incompetance in business as
> well." -- G�l�k Z. L. F. Buday
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> PS I am not, nor have been, known as Grant Buday
> PPS Not Che from che-lives.com
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