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[Citation needed]

• stevenalowe 7y ago
  https://reason.com/2013/04/18/taxation-is-theft/ https://reason.com/2013/04/18/taxation-is-theft/
  • dctoedt 7y ago
    The gravamen of the linked argument is that if you get paid for doing something, you're supposedly entitled to keep all of it, because somehow all of the hidden costs of your doing what you did have been taken care of by others. That's a flawed assumption. Elizabeth Warren's famous 2012 campaign talk hit the nail on the head: You shipped your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for; you employed workers that the rest of us paid to educate; you didn't have to worry (excessively) about marauding bands stealing your stuff because of police and military that the rest of us pay for.
    • stevenalowe 7y ago
      An argument which implicitly assumes that the status quo is the only possible solution. Nice try.
      • dctoedt 7y ago
        > An argument which implicitly assumes that the status quo is the only possible solution. Nice try. I'm not at all opposed to considering changes to the status quo. But libeling (yes, libeling) taxation as theft is not going to persuade very many people to consider such changes.
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