Democracy is how we determine what laws to pass. Universal rights are how we determine if a law is just. Just as we have a universal right to not be enslaved, w

Democracy is how we determine what laws to pass. Universal rights are how we determine if a law is just. Just as we have a universal right to not be enslaved, we have a universal right to not have our private property and privacy violated, and an income or sales tax does both. >I also don't understand the distinction for private trade, in that without a functioning government to support a marketplace, such trade would not exist. Private trade refers to trade amongst exclusively private entities, as opposed to trade amongst several entities, one or more of which are public (government). Your speculation that private trade wouldn't exist without services rendered by government, even if it were accurate, would not disqualify trade amongst private parties as private.