[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Platt Holden]

> > [Krimel]
> > You could earn less that the minimum taxable income
> > and do any or all of these.
> 
> [Platt]
> Now you're talking. Become a moocher and live off other's work. Of course, I
> would lose all self-respect. But what the hell?
> 
> [Krimel]
> No need to mooch; you just need to lower your standard of living. That is
> your free choice.

Still subject to property and sales taxes which, if I refuse to pay, either 
leaves me naked or in jail. Nice choice. 

> It is also what you expect society at large to do by
> lowering taxes and spending. We can live with potholes and illiteracy and
> fire and crime and research and pollution and disease. Third world countries
> do it all the time.

Lowering taxes and spending will result in us becoming a third world 
country? Amazing how government waste contributes to our well-being.  
 
> [Platt]
> Obviously you haven't read about people who refuse to pay taxes and 
> barricade themselves in their homes against the imposition of the law. Nor
> have you heard of people thrown in jail for evasion of income tax.  
> 
> [Krimel]
> Sure I have read about people who freely chose to play the game and cheat
> and then violently attempt to avoid the penalties.

Barricading yourself in your home is hardly violence. It's passive 
resistance as practiced by Ghandi, King and others who objected to 
government coercion. 

> Cheating does not bring
> out the guns, violent resistance to the enforcement of the rules does that.

The guns are always there, intimidating people to act as proscribed by 
government. That's what gives government its power -- and the only thing..