"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >> >> If the gummint was to
> >> > > tax that speech at the 8% tax rate on the sale of a motorcycle,
how
> >> > > much money could the gummint get?
>
> >>> If the gummint was to tax Roger
>
> > > Don't dodge the question:
>
> > > If the gummint was to tax that speech at a 8% tax rate
> > > much money could the gummint get?
>
> > Nothing. ?8% of nothing is still nothing.
>
> >> Anyway, this is irrelevant for more than one
> >> reason: private speech is always free,
>
> > > OK I put a sign for everyone to see out in my front yard.
>
> > Where'd you buy that sign, and the crayon you used
> > to write on it? ?
> I didn't. The smelly hippies in my commune made it out of colored
> clay.
So you engaged in a trade with smelly
hippies before you could indulge in
practicing your free speech. Free trade
preceded your free speech.
> > And you also stole that front yard from
> > some of my ancestors.
> Nope. It's out here in Death Valley. When the tribal types
> researched it for a casino, they couldn't find any artifacts on the
> land.
Manifest destiny is manifest destiny.
> But that does bring up another point:
No it doesn't.
> For the public to see a sign on a piece of property, there must be a
> public road nearby.
Supposing it's a private road?
> This isn't a coincidence. In fact, all communication with the public
> is always 100% dependent on public funding.
Well, if that were true, it would mean that someone
would have had to hire the union mafia thugs who
made the road. Hence, free trade precedes each
and every discrete instance of free speech. You
are full of internal contradictions.
Anyway, there is one sort of public funding that
really is required to defend free speech. That is,
protecting you from fascist islamic fundamentalists
who gun you down for making nasty movies about
Islam. The Netherlands let Theo Van Gogh down
there. If you prefer, substitute christian, atheist,
commies\, paranoid right-wing, or union thugs for
the islamists.
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