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It's not theft because it is a legally established process for funding the government. You have a say in how taxation works, through the political process. Yo
by Frondo 10y ago
It's not theft because it is a legally established process for funding the government.
You have a say in how taxation works, through the political process. You're part of this system and are fully free to work to end all taxation.
And, you don't need to think that taxation is just, or fair, but it is in fact legal and applies to you until you either work to end it or move somewhere where it doesn't apply.
Theft is the unlawful, extrajudicial taking of something without permission.
Put simply: we all agreed to be taxed (for most of us, our parents agreed on our behalf when we were born), but theft happens without our agreeing to anything.
- lacampbell 10y agoAgain, the terrifying conclusion that being born in a huge geographic area means you consent to anything the state in charges of it does. Consider the implications of this...
- Frondo 10y agoWhen you were a child, your parents consented on your behalf. When you reach the age of majority, you are free to revoke your consent by leaving the area and renouncing your citizenship. You really don't have to stay if you don't like the laws. You don't even have to move, if you can get enough people on board to changing them. You have a lot of options, but very few of them make "taxation is theft" into a meaningful sentence.