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+<xml><p> The Moral Case _For_ Taking Federal Matching Funds</p>
+
+<p> by Michael Emerling</p>
+
+<p>As a "matter of principle", <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Presidential candidates have
+refused to seek federal matching campaign funds. Taxation is theft and
+accepting tax funds makes us party to the crime. By taking the loot, by
+welcoming stolen goods, the <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Party betrays the
+non-aggression principle. We surrender our morality, integrity and
+principles.</p>
+
+<p>So we've been told.</p>
+
+<p>This position is not merely wrong. It is the exact opposite of the
+truth.</p>
+
+<p>As <ent type='PERSON'>Frank Chodorov</ent> observed, "Taxation is robbery." Government is funded
+by legalized looting. Government has no right to the proceeds of
+plunder. Nor does it have the right to "assign" or "transfer" the booty
+to others.</p>
+
+<p>Who has the right to this loot? The rightful owners. The victims of the
+tax crime: those who earned and owned it. The tax payers.</p>
+
+<p>Let's look at <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> taxpayers. How many <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s are there in
+<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> today? No one knows. <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s don't like being counted or
+registered by the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>.</p>
+
+<p>Individuals who believe that they have a right to their life, liberty,
+and property; Individuals who know that their life is their own and
+intend to run it by their own judgement; Individuals who value
+voluntary relations and oppose force and fraud; these individuals mind
+their own business and live their lives as they see fit. Their privacy
+is their protection, so they jealously guard it. They live by the code
+of liberty. They are libertarians, whether they know it or not. But
+their way of life makes them invisible, uncounted and forgotten.</p>
+
+<p>A few <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s organized to reclaim their rights to life, liberty
+and property. They did so as a matter of self-defense. They called
+their organization the <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Party.</p>
+
+<p>Today there are 9000 dues paying National <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Party members in
+<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. And perhaps another 6000 local <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Party members.
+There are over 50000 voters registered as <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s, even though
+many states do not allow us to register <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>.</p>
+
+<p>For the sake of discussion, assume that there are only 10000
+<ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. Assume that the average <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> earns
+$30000 a year. (Probably a low figure, with all the professionals and
+computer programmers in the <ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Party.) A person earning
+$30000 a year is paying a minimum of $3000 a year in federal income
+taxes. Using these deliberately low figures, we can see that
+<ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s are paying a minimum of $30000000 each year in income
+taxes. That's $2500000 each month.</p>
+
+<p><ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s have a right to recover this money. Or authorize another
+to recover it.</p>
+
+<p>In light of this, let's reframe the matching funds issue:</p>
+
+<p>1. "Do taxpaying libertarians have the right to authorize the
+<ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Presidential Candidate to use the matching funds process to
+recover taxes taken from them?"</p>
+
+<p>2. "Do they have the right to authorize their candidate to use the
+recovered taxes to fight the looters?"</p>
+
+<p>An example from history might highlight the issue. During the
+Revolutionary War, <ent type='PERSON'>Francis Marion</ent> ("the Swamp <ent type='ORG'>Fox</ent>") organized a
+guerilla army in <ent type='GPE'>South Carolina</ent>. Marion staged midnight raids, hit and
+run attacks and sabotage. This frustrated the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> officers and tied
+up troops that might have been used to defeat <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> or Lee.</p>
+
+<p>Marion and his men ran out of ammunition. So they raided <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>
+armories, taking all the weapons and ammunition they could carry. They
+did return the bullets to the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> ... one at a time.</p>
+
+<p>These <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> weapons were paid for by past taxation and the source of
+future taxation.</p>
+
+<p>Did the Swamp <ent type='ORG'>Fox</ent> have the right to seize and use the weapons against
+the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>? Or should <ent type='PERSON'>Francis Marion</ent> have left them in the hands of
+the enemy?</p>
+
+<p>***<ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent>s not only have the right to recover their taxes through
+matching funds, they have the moral obligation to do so.*** The taxes
+we do not recover will fund the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>... or be turned over to
+<ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Democratic</ent> Presidential candidates who will seek to make
+<ent type='ORG'>Big Government</ent> bigger. Your taxes either fund the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> or Statist
+Campaigns. Every tax dollar we do not reclaim will be used to sustain
+or expand the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>. As <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Power grows, individual liberty and
+self-responsibility dies.</p>
+
+<p>Can you afford to have the money you've earned used against you? You've
+been disarmed and your own weapons have been turned against you. Take
+them back.</p>
+
+<p>After all, whose money is it? Yours.</p>
+
+<p>Do you live off the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> or does the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> live off you? Are you a tax
+producer or a tax consumer? Are you a tax victim or a tax beneficiary?</p>
+
+<p>When you fill out your 1040, if you have a refund due from the <ent type='ORG'>IRS</ent>, do
+you take back your money? Why? Because it's yours. It's not welfare.
+It's recovering a part of what is rightfully yours.</p>
+
+<p>Matching funds are tax refunds. By contributing to the <ent type='PERSON'>Marrou</ent>
+<ent type='NORP'>Libertarian</ent> Presidential Campaign, you are allowing us to recover money
+looted from you through federal income taxes and use it to fight the
+government for liberty.</p>
+
+<p>------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This text appeared in a brochure distributed by the <ent type='PERSON'>Marrou</ent> for President
+campaign in November 1990.
+</p></xml>