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Slavery is taking someone's labor for free. Even an Anarcho-Capitalist would have trouble equating taxation with slavery. The person being taxed gets the benefi
by nikdaheratik 10y ago
Slavery is taking someone's labor for free. Even an Anarcho-Capitalist would have trouble equating taxation with slavery. The person being taxed gets the benefit of living in a country not plagued by uneducated, sick, hungry citizens. All for the low price of a certain percentage of their income.
- marknutter 10y agoI'm not saying taxation is slavery. I'm saying that you cannot have a system in which a portion of the population does zero work and receives resources for free without requiring that the other portion to do the work producing those resources. If the productive portion simply stopped working, or only worked enough to barely survive themselves, the nonproductive portion of the population would perish unless they enslaved the productive portion and forced them to produce surpluses.