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Tax is the moral basis on which democracy is predicated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsl6QUlWVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsl6QUlWVc

• clipradiowallet 5y ago
  To be slightly pedantic, the US system of government is a federal republic[1] that includes some democratic concepts. An example of those concepts is the democratic election of representatives at a state and federal level. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_Unit...
• zionic 5y ago
  That makes perfect sense because taxation is theft and immoral. It is therefore consistent that the moral basis for our unjust society is itself unjust.
• adolph 5y ago
  Prior to the mid 20th century, a poll tax was implemented in some U.S. state and local jurisdictions and paying it was a requirement before one could exercise one's right to vote. After this right was extended to all races by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, many Southern states enacted poll taxes as a means of excluding African-American voters, most of whom were poor and unable to pay a tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax