@Ceili,
Ceili wrote:
I'm not American. I don't have a problem paying taxes.
The American people like to think that all they own is owned free and clear... As a commonwealth, all we own in our common property, taken by this people and collectively defended by this people... If the people have found some immediate benefit to putting some of the commonwealth in private hands, then there it must still support the population... For what other reason is public property made private than for the continuing benefit of the people??? Whether in private hands or public, the land of a country must still support the people, and there is no way around that fact...
That is why the citizens of Rome, who were dispossessed of their land by the very slaves they had conquered, were elegible for the corn dole.... Their land, their commonwealth still had to feed them if it expected them to be soldiers for Rome... But in Both Greece and Rome, the rich who became the private owners of the commonwealth chaffed at having to give the poor what they were entitled to... Yet; as long as the emperors needed the citizens to support his rule, there was the corn dole... When the emperor no longer needed the people, but only the army for his position, the people were nothing, and their rights were nothing, and they treated as nothing, and for their parts would cut off their thumbs rather than fight for a meaningless freedom...