[PEN-L:33744] Re: RE: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [PEN-L:33742] RE: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More
Taxes!


> As Michael Pollak knows, this is much the same as Thomas Hobbes'
argument
> (in LEVIATHAN). If I remember correctly, Hobbes was more in favor of
> progressive taxation than John Locke was, which may fit with the
latter's
> belief that private property is "natural," possibly existing in a
"state of
> nature" without a state. BTW, it's very important to Ellen's question
that
> we argue against the notion that capitalism/markets/private property
are
> "natural."


> Jim

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Somewhere in my pile of books/papers I have a piece that asserts that
Locke's ideal was a 3 hour workday, with the exception of harvest time.
I like the "...", Jim :-)


Ian