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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
....Second, the government does not do business like happens every day in business. Not in the case of taxes. No one in business anywhere can come take money from you under the threat of imprisonment just because they no longer like the deal they made with you. This is what the government does. That is why we should limit the opportunity to do this, not expand it at every opportunity.
If you did try to go adjust a deal in this way, showing up at the door of someones house with guns and take them to prison, or start walking off with their stuff, I'd say the government's job is to stop you.
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there's a line of thought....
....it's a crazy, irresponsible, foolish line of thought mind you....
anyhoo....there's a line of thought that believes that governments ought to be beholden to the same moral and ethical standards as any other institutions in a society.
those folks that think this are plainly crazy. But at least, according to this standard, what businesses do every day and what the government does in the case at hand are decidedly two very different things.
cheers