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 news:9jrs94011uq@enews4.newsguy.com... > 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? * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *