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> taxfree@planeteer.com (Daniel J. Lavigne) in response to a question
> wrote:
> 
[original text both excerpted and rearranged]


> Write a letter as follows to Parliament and send a copy to each and
> every member of Parliament and  courtesy copys to Revenue Canada,
> Justice and Finance . . .


> . . .  my humanity, the fact and reason of my existence as a
> human being prevents me, and absolutely forbids me, from aiding or
> assisting those who so willfully, vilely and contemptuously risk the
> very extinction of mankind.

> 
> . . . I direct you to make an
> accounting of all past taxes paid by me to yourselves in a mistaken
> trust that such funds would be used for moral and proper purposes, and
> to remit that amount to me in full with accrued interest. I shall leave
> the matter of the calculation of interest to you and your kind.
> 
> 
 . . .  my birth as a human being did not condemn me
> to support, in perpetuity, a society that would abandon and curse the
> future in order that the current madness of societal greed be fed.
> 




Hey, taxfree! Here's an alternative letter for you to ponder:


Dear Government:


Whereas:

the Cold War is over;

weapons of mass destruction are extremely stupid, but Communism and
rapacious imperialism are even more stupid, to the degree that allowing
these latter two to advance unchecked would have been far more immoral
than weapons manufacture;

weapons of mass destruction have served a far higher purpose, by being too
powerful to ever be used and preventing a third world war at the most
volatile time in human history;

weapons of mass destruction, having served this purpose, are now being
dismantled;

focusing on weapons of mass destruction is needlessly narrow, as other
types of weapons produced by the government, including guns and small
bombs, have been used to kill far more people;

And, whereas you have agreed to no longer collect money from
taxfree@planeteer.com and all those who have similarly refused to pay
their taxes (hitherto referred to as taxfree et al), I do hereby demand
that all governmental resources be denied to them, or provided strictly on
a fee-for-use basis, and otherwise reserved strictly for those of us who
have paid our taxes.

In particular, I demand that taxfree et al not be allowed to use any road
built with government funds without first paying a fee for that use, the
fee covering an appropriate share of the road's construction, as well as
any costs incurred in the collection of that fee.

I further demand that taxfree et al be forbidden from entering any park,
public area, waterway or other government-funded or maintained
recreational facility without first paying the appropriate fee.

I further demand that taxfree et al not be permitted to benefit from any
government-funded weather report, health research or medicine or food
development or testing without first paying the appropriate fee.

I further demand that taxfree et al be denied treatment at any
government-funded hospital or clinic without first paying the appropriate
fee.

I further demand that taxfree et al, as well as all dependents, be denied
government-funded education loans or government-subsidized education at
any public school, college or university without first paying the
appropriate fee.

I further demand that taxfree et al be denied any use of the U.S. Postal
Service, telephone or the Internet (as each of these three represents a
significant investment in government funds, either to establish, maintain
or regulate) without first paying the appropriate fee.

I further demand, should a foreign power attack our nation, that troops,
weapons or systems of any sort belonging to the government not be used to
protect taxfree et al.

Recognizing the difficulty of limiting these services only to those who
have paid taxes if taxfree et al continue to live among us, I would be
satisfied with a solution in which taxfree et al are required to live
separately from the rest of us, in a place where they can figure out on
their own how to provide for the common good without taxes, or how to
raise taxes and spend them on only those things that taxfree et al have
unanimously approved.

As another alternative, I would accept the expenditure of my tax dollars
to provide taxfree et al a basic education in the history of civilization,
the nature of life in an anarchy, the purpose and value of taxes, the
relative importance of weapons of mass destruction to armed conflict
throughout history, the causes of the Cold War, and the basic workings of
democracy.

As a last alternative, I would accept that taxfree receive a grant from
the government exactly equaling his tax obligation so he will no longer
feel compelled to waste his time going to such ridiculous lengths for his
selfish and petty tax dodge.

Thank you.





More from taxfree, with commentary:


> 
> The point of the exercise is not too stop supporting society, we should
> all, willingly, do that. Supporting insanity is another matter. If the
> witheld amounts are denied to governments, the exercise shall have
> fulfilled its intent.
> 
> A similar statement by citizens of other countries to your governments
> may be the way to start society on a path leading to our full
> development. 


By "full development," I assume you mean the kind of anarchy that, through
famine, unchecked crime and invasion, and total infrastructural breakdown,
would produce almost the same number of deaths, in good time, as
widespread use of weapons of mass destruction.





> To all: Failing to do so guarantees the use of all weapons of mass
> murder.

No it doesn't. These weapons are unprecedented in their power, which means
their use (or lack of use) has no precedent either. One cannot "guarantee"
that something will happen in history at any time, much less when there
are so many unknowns involved. It does seem significant, however, that
they were not used during the time of greatest conflict.


> We no longer have a choice in the matter. A decision must be
> made; use or dismantle the weapons and the mindsets that have had us
> prepared to lay waste to . . .  everything 


We are dismantling both, albeit too slowly, but it's happening. I urge you
to invest in a newspaper subscription.