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Is tax optional? What basis is there to force another to pay tax? Can there be a moral basis for taking another person's income, or is it bound to be immoral,

• taeric 3y ago
  If you are truly unable to pay taxes, you would be surprised how much effort the IRS will go to help you on that. Similar to any debts you owe, courts will work with you to meet you where you are. Similarly, if someone owes you payment for something, you can take them to court to compel reasonable payment. If you can never have a "moral basis" for compelling payment, than I'm curious how you think any contract law can work to secure payments? And note, this is in the US. There are places where you can be forced into servitude for payments owed. Or imprisoned for non-payment. Yes, there are prison sentences for fraud in the US, but it is very different from how things have "naturally" worked in the past.
  • verisimi 3y ago
    > If you can never have a "moral basis" for compelling payment, than I'm curious how you think any contract law can work to secure payments? If 2 parties voluntarily agree to do something, and voluntarily agree to go into contract and by bound by such-and-such terms, there is no force or coercion. Did you sign a contract with the IRS or the government? No. Your bondage is assumed. I don't care how much effort the IRS take to be nice. If they are forcibly extracting wealth, this is always a wrong. You wouldn't initiate forcible extraction of wealth from another and call it right, would you?