Re: [Phys-l] taxes (was SOLAR , NUCLEAR ENERGY etc.)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

That's what Carter said and began the roll back that we ( well, not  
Bob, et al.)  suffer from today.

Come now (proper role) you know it depends on the political  
philosophy of the person defining [no consensus] -- One of the  
founding fathers thought it was to protect the people from monopolies.

couldn't find it but I did find:

I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's birth  
the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to  
challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to  
the laws of our country.[55]   [T. J.]  And:

Concerning the Shays' Rebellion after he had heard of the bloodshed,  
on November 13, 1787 Jefferson wrote to William S. Smith, John  
Adams's son-in-law, "What signify a few lives lost in a century or  
two? The tree of liberty must from time to time be refreshed with the  
blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."[59] And in  
another letter to William S. Smith during 1787, Jefferson wrote:

“
And what country can preserve its liberties, if the rulers are not  
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of  
resistance? Let them take arms.[60]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#View_on_corporations

bc

p.s. Carter's minor purpose of govt.  (Includes life is not fair quote):


If the purpose of the Government-and I think its legitimate purpose-- 
is to prevent the birth of unwanted children, I think the best way to  
spend limited Federal moneys, again, is in the education of sometimes  
ignorant young people, women and men, and making available to them  
family planning instruction plus contraceptive devices that would  
prevent a pregnancy to begin with.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7857






On 2009, Apr 15, , at 06:45, Rick Tarara wrote:

> Life is not fair, not meant to be fair, and taxes are a prime  
> example of
> this!  ;-)


The real question (and again one on which there will be no consensus) is
what is the proper role of government?