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When I reached "Taxation is theft!" I was moved to come here and comment on it. It only took about a second for me to stop myself and laugh. Apparently others h
by jrajav 14y ago
When I reached "Taxation is theft!" I was moved to come here and comment on it. It only took about a second for me to stop myself and laugh. Apparently others here weren't quite so levelheaded.
- alttab 14y agoI'm not sure what your comment is trying to imply, but this is also where I stopped reading. "Taxation keeps the first disadvantage, but arguably subverts the second disadvantage if you believe being able to fund a government has greater social value than leaving money in the hands of those who earned it." Using this argument, at least with the US Government, taxation is most certainly theft.
- jrajav 14y agoYeah, my comment was a lot clearer in my head. I meant that I was about to launch into a minirant about fair taxation in the US. I did a double take and realized that I had hit an emotional trigger very similar to the kind the article is calling out. I think it's very valuable to examine our emotional attachments to words, and I think that's the best thing to take away from the article.