Are some on the Left starting to converge with libertarians and treat taxation as theft?
Guardian Mainstream Media Article Title:
"We will not pay: the Americans withholding their taxes to fight Trump"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/tax-refusing-pay-protest-trump
A few of my facebook friends, particularly Ben Farmer pointed out the possible Left convergence with the non cult of state worship idea of taxation as theft? Or at least what is their basis of not paying taxes other than lacking any duty to? And in the absence of their consent to the exchange, the victim having a moral justification to not be forced to pay--or at least such force to pay being widely recognized as little if not at all different than highway robbery.
If we arguendo assume that people have the right to self possession, than logical taxation would be a form of slavery whereby a person's labor/liberty is conscripted for the collective's benefit.
I imagine services and funds would be better managed if people who wanted the service were the ones funding it rather than robbing pete to pay paul in the supposed name of helping patrick.
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I just want to say, that both left and right in the political spectrum, are almost the same.
I'm from Brazil, and here the right(conservatives) is funded by the same network that funds the US left. So it really does not meter the political view whatsoever, bot "sides" are corrupted by the same NWO agenda.
I'd hardly call the Democrats left wing, but I know what you mean.
What most people don't understand about taxes is that they aren't used to pay for anything. How is this possible? It's because money ceases to exist when it's paid to the tax office and the Government then replaces it by injecting newly created dollars into the economy each and every time it spends.
yea not sure. Hopefully we will be free someday.
As a leftist, saying that taxation is theft is like saying that only hiring white people to build the bombs that get dropped on Middle East civilians is discrimination.
yea, hopefully we will be free someday!!
The elite who wrote the tax law manage to move their wealth to tax havens and left you and me to pay taxes to pave their streets. Long live capitalism.
Why do elites need streets so bad that the ants like you and me move on and have our goods delivered to us on? I know you must be mad as hell about how capitalists make goods as cheap and as good a quality as they can and force you to buy such deals.
👍 Do the sheep car if the grass is expensive or cheap? They just happy to have grass to eat. Nice video.
C'est la vie. hopefully someday we can eliminate all the bureaucracy and just end poverty.
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