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Author: ShrikebackShrikeback Date: Mar 4, 2008 14:25
>>> Does free speech precede each and every free trade?
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>> Are they not the same?
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> It's easy to tax a trade. Just take x%% of the transaction.
If the transaction doesn't involve the exchange of
currency x%% of it is 0.
> How do you tax speech?
By taxing the free trade that necessarily precedes each
and every instance of free speech. Free speech is 100%%
dependent on free trade, and none of the Shrilltankers at
the Daily KoS, Mother Jones, or 9-11 Truth is Out There
Scully, or the High-Tax Jimmy Carter Economic Stagflation
Levelling of Wealth Society can find a single counterexample.
Just ask them. When they cut the question from their
response, it means they agree.
>> Trade being one form of speech.
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>> One can trade without speech.
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> The federal judiciary has defined "free speech" to include all
> communitive activity. Searcy v Crim, 207 U.S. 482 (1959)
So spreading a communicative disease is free speech too?
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