I have been informed privately that Jefferson was not an author of the
Federalist papers.  In my checking via google this seems to be correct.
Like I said it was a very long time ago in high school that we studied those
writings.  (30+ years).  Sorry for the misleading refererence.

Heter, Alan <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Patrick Thrapp wrote:
>         It has been a very long time since I read the Federalist Papers by
> Thomas
>         Jefferson.  Very long.  But I remember that he indicated that
taxes
> were
>         also a way to allow the freedom of somewhat deviant behavior, say
> smoking,
>         but to burden that behavior with taxes as societies way of
> controlling the
>         deviant behavior.
> BIG Snip...
>
> So does that mean that work is deviant behavior that the government wants
to
> control?

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