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You consent by buying / not selling your property. Besides which, where do you think your “rights” to “own” property come from?

• anon84759392 7y ago
  It's my natural right to own property, with the caveat that such ownership is defined by my ability to defend it by whatever means necessary: socially, physically, logically, legally, etc. Or at least that's what my country's founders might have believed and tried to establish. We might argue they're still correct in some sense even in spite of a government or society that insists otherwise.
  • perl4ever 7y ago
    "Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master."
    • gshdg 7y ago
      To whom is that attributed?
      • perl4ever 7y ago
        Adam Smith.