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RE: Honey Nazis
in fact, democratically-elected constitutional republics--commit more oppression, robbery and murder than any other institution in the history of the world.
I hope you didn't really mean that literally. I'm sure feudal societies offered so much more freedom to peasants than today's world. Or societies where most people were slaves. Or the human-sacrificing crazy religious ones. Or North Korea. How can you even say that?
The assertion that taxation is violence is almost as large of an exaggeration as what you wrote above.
Taxation is theft under threat of violence. The more you resist it the higher the violence becomes.
If you don't believe that stop paying "your" taxes and guess what happens:
Outcome 2 is the most likely.
As to the quoted bit I'd be inclined to agree with it. Feudal regimes that became too over bearing were overthrown. Modern people are so conditioned that they don't believe taxation is theft under threat of violence... and so the oppression will get a lot worse before enough people decide that enough is enough.
Taxation can be theft or violence if you claim that all the government-issued paper you manage to get your hands on in the context of said government is legitimately and naturally yours. That's not that easy of a case to make decisively I think.
When living in a society, you are indeed forced to cooperate and that's inevitable. Taxation in the context of democracy is the best practical model we have so far. If we get a better one, I would love to get rid of it. I don't like my taxes going into the pockets of corrupt politicians either. Just explain to me how we get rid of it all and end up with something better.
If you claim that modern people are less free and more oppressed than feudal peasants, I really don't know what to say. I'm sorry to put it so bluntly, but that's ridiculous.