In message <1ig2ww2.e6fhen1snsoiqN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, Steve Firth 
<%steve%@malloc.co.uk> writes
>Dave Plowman (News)  wrote:
>
>> In article <1ig2n7l.1ng60e7j095loN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>,
>>    Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Dave Plowman (News)  wrote:
>>
>> > > In article <1ig2efw.1b5ba4q164qe6hN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>,
>> > >    Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
>> > > > Dave Plowman (News)  wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > > In article <1ig1z20.zhfiwm9wyl4N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>,
>> > > > >    Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
>> > > > > > Dave Plowman (News)  wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > > In article <1ig166a.p7i5r3wm1i5fN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, Steve
>> > > > > > >    Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
>> > > > > > > > Taxation doesn't exist to make poor people better off. It
>> > > > > > > > exists for two reasons, so that politicians can prove to
>> > > > > > > > themselves that they have power over ordinary people's lives
>> > > > > > > > and to put money into the Treasury to pay for the stupid
>> > > > > > > > ideas of politicians.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Thanks for confirming you're an even bigger fool than I first
>> > > > > > > though.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Thanks for confirming that you can only respond with personal
>> > > > > > abuse.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Not abuse - merely a fact if you actually believe what you wrote.
>> > >
>> > > > It was abuse, pure and simple.
>> > >
>> > > The way to prevent abuse, then, is to stop writing shite.
>>
>> > More abuse.
>>
>> > > I've heard fanatic Iatollas talk more sense.
>>
>> > Possibly because when the evidence is given to you, you refuse to read
>> > it. I'd guess you also refuse to listen to it.
>>
>> Stop digging a bigger hole for yourself.
>
>Stop coming up with non sequiturs.
>
>> Before I gave you the credit of *possibly* understanding what you'd
>> written.
>
>No you didn't you simply saw a trigger word and jerked your knee.
>
>>  Now I'm not sure.
>
>What do you mean "now"? You've had your head in the samd over taxation
>for umm ever.
>
>Shouldn't you be worshipping an efigy of Lenin at this time of night?

Dave Plowman appears to be a perfectly reasonable chap, but he is 
somewhere to the left of Pol Pot.  To those of us of a more libertarian 
viewpoint, he gets rather tiresome.
-- 
Chris Morriss