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If capital punishment is murder, then taxation is theft.
by rwjwjuwjudf 11y ago
If capital punishment is murder, then taxation is theft.
- the_ancient 11y agoCorrect
- jakub_h 11y agoIs paying for services theft?
- rwjwjuwjudf 11y agoI dunno, I'm not a libertarian :)
- zo1 11y agoWhy don't you rephrase that with the appropriate level of detail and not leaving out important facts: Is not wanting to pay for something that you were given and didn't explicitly request theft? And yes, I'm an anarcho-capitalist and jumping in here. There are a slew of assumptions that are being made when arguing for a pro-state stance. Eventually, you'll stumble on this thing called the "social contract", and then magically all questions of validity are somehow answered. It's a convenient answer devoid of any first-principles, that many are content with using as a basis to defend the status-quo of the existence of a state.
- rwjwjuwjudf 11y agoThere's no such thing as no state. For any conflict, whoever wins is the de facto state.
- zo1 11y agoI think you'd get disagreements from both sides of the fence on that definition of a state.
- koenigdavidmj 11y agoAll of the theories of who is a state or not fail as soon as real geopolitics is involved. Taiwan is not a state in the eyes of the US simply because China wouldn't play nicely if we said otherwise. Saudi Arabia during its formation in the early 1900s would have been indistinguishable from the ISIS of today.
- the_ancient 11y agoIf your window is broken and I replace your window but take your TV as payment, did I steal your TV? Maybe you had a different window you wanted, or maybe you did not want to replace it at all. "Paying for services" implies some kind of voluntary exchange. Government is not voluntary, government is violence, and any "service" provided by government is done so at gun point under the threat of violence and paid for in the same manner.
- jakub_h 11y agoYes, yes, you and the guy above are Americans, I get that. Me, I'm from Europe. I guess we see things differently. Of course, none of us here has a country that would demand such ridiculous things as income taxes from expats, so I see where that may come from.