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The refusal to acknowledge that taxes are the legitimate cost of living in a nation is a distinctly libertarian characteristic.
by te_chris 12y ago
The refusal to acknowledge that taxes are the legitimate cost of living in a nation is a distinctly libertarian characteristic.
- baddox 12y agoI don't deny that some level of taxation is probably inevitable in modern Western society, at least without some sort of major paradigm shift. I'm not sure it needs to be a personal income tax, and I'm quite confident it doesn't need to be anywhere near as complicated as it is in the USA. I also think taxes could be much lower without significant societal changes or sacrifices, and I think it's very reasonable to be concerned at how my taxes are used. Anyway, whether or not my views constitute a belief that taxes are not "legitimate" is a largely semantic question. The very notion of legitimacy borders on moral arguments, which I try to refrain from making. I could point to some distinctly libertarian arguments for the morality of taxation, some of which seem convincing if taken on their own terms, but that's not really my thing.