Taxation Is Theft But Tariffs Are Different
Many libertarians were triggered by Trump's proposed 20% tariff on Mexican imports to pay for the wall to keep them on the plantation. Taxation is theft, but in this video, Vin Armani explains why tariffs are not the same thing as taxes.
I don't see how tariffs are not theft.
If I live in America and I wanna trade with someone in Japan. And I have to pay a tariff at some imaginary line between us I can not see how that's not theft. (this is in the situation of a voluntary world)
The government does not own the land where people are living nor does it own the lines it has drawn on a piece of paper pretending it to be real "borders".
The government does not own anything. The government does not exist. It's a concept, concepts can not own anything.
If a group of individuals decides to keep voting and pay voluntary taxes and buy a piece of land within "the old America) than they own only that land (they can call it America if they want and install tarrifs, but they can not claim the whole of America, and say because the government "owned" the whole of America before, we the voluntary taxpayers own the whole country now.
I think the bigger issue is Trump's promise to make Mexico pay for it. Raising the price of things from Mexico 20% means the Americans purchasing those goods pay for it, not Mexico.
Tariffs are tremendously bullish for the stock indexes. Monday March 5th, 2018 the market was up 1% already on news of the tariffs.