On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:07:36AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
http://www.religiousword.com/2012/04/the-1975-victorian-constitution-is-inva...
do you have any idea how ridiculous you are when you a) berate people for linking to wikipedia and science blogs and other fact-based sites whilst b) linking to absurd religous sites like religiousword.com and loony larouchian right-wing conspiracy theory sites like clrg.info (which, in turn, links to even more absurd right-wing nutbaggery like truthology.org.au - which, despite the .au domain, is obsessed with the american IRS and american-focused right-wing conspiracy theories) The sites you link to are not credible, and the nonsensical political, legal, and economic "theories" they push (e.g. a return to the so-called gold standard will solve the world's economic woes; tax is both illegal and voluntary; the pope is the antichrist and owns the entire world because the vatican owns britain or some such nonsense; General Ripper style beliefs about fluoridation and precious bodily fluids; and so on) are, to use a technical term, fucked in the head. I suspect that the opposition of these loony sites to local government is *entirely* because councils have the ability to levy rates for land ownership - which they do in order to maintain local roads, parks, etc and provide services such as health care centres, community houses, garbage collection, child-care facilities and many others. and one of the core articles of faith of loony right wing conspiracy nutters is that it is always appropriate to be whining about how unfair tax is and how they don't want to pay it, and that with some pseudo-legalistic mumbo-jumbo they can just hand-wave away the obligation to pay taxes. This faith, is of course, nothing other than a self-reinforcing circle-jerk masturbatory fantasy and can most appropriately be called The Soggy Biscuit of Tax Law Speculation. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>