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Given that there is such a thing as an inalienable right should such rights be taxed?

Thomas Jefferson said that it was self evident that we all have certain inalienable rights. If a right is inalienable it seems to me that it should be free. Yet, we have a right to life and that life is taxed through income taxes. We must spend part of our lives working so we have what we need to live. We have a right to property yet we have to pay sales and property taxes. If you believe that Jefferson is correct then should such rights be taxed as they are now in pretty much every country on Earth?

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    Adesope Rebecca

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    Jan 30 2013: No, i think such rights should not be taxed because inalienable rights are natural rights and such rights no body can give except God. Except for the benefit of the services rendered by the government to that life as a human being.

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