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> That's true only if you are 'liberal' (to the extreme) No, it's quite literally true. Taxation is armed men taking your money by force. We've just agreed tha
by aianus 12y ago
> That's true only if you are 'liberal' (to the extreme)
No, it's quite literally true. Taxation is armed men taking your money by force. We've just agreed that it's worth it to violate property rights to some degree for the greater good.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoFrom its city-state inception, taxation is you giving money to the state, so the state ensures that armed men don't come and take your money by force. 10,000 years ago you were completely welcome to live outside of the city-state if you wished where everything is taken and kept by force; you'd just have a shorter/harder life at it.
- michaelt 12y agoProperty rights don't exist in a vacuum - they're made by us humans in our heads, just like intellectual property. Get rid of the government and you could take my house just by showing up with a bigger gun than me. Only thing I could do is get together with my friends and neighbours to form an armed gang for mutual property rights enforcement, AKA a government.