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Taxation is not theft. You're free to leave, but as long as you stay in our territory, you'll have to stick to our community rules, and that includes taxation.
by kaoD 14y ago
Taxation is not theft. You're free to leave, but as long as you stay in our territory, you'll have to stick to our community rules, and that includes taxation.
There's a social contract which you implicitly sign. Take it or leave it, but stop trying to impose your ideals upon society.
It's funny how liberals can't stop ranting about impositions but fail to realize they're denying society the right to assemble as a state.
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- pc86 14y agoYou do realize that "Taxation is theft" is about the least liberal thing a person could say, right?
- kaoD 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism "Economic liberalism contrasts with ideologies like social liberalism and social democracy as well as economic orders such as socialism, market socialism, welfare capitalism, mercantilism and state capitalism [...] opposes government intervention on the grounds that the state often serves dominant business interests, distorting the market to their favor and thus leading to inefficient outcomes" Et cetĕra. See also: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire
- pc86 14y agoAnd prior to FDR the Democratic party was the party of small government. I'm referring the United States in the present day, where (generally speaking) the word liberal refers to Democrats more often than Republicans, and the idea that taxation is theft is an order of magnitude more closely associated with the latter than the former. Classical liberalism : The word "liberal" in common discourse :: Classical literature : Harry Potter
- kaoD 14y agoUnfortunately the internet is not USA. I'm sorry for the confusion that my choice of words might have caused you.