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RE: In Defense of Taxation
I suppose here we see the difference between natural and artificial wealth.
Natural wealth, such as trees, cars, fancy paper, and gold, is valuable because you can do something with it. For example, make shiny jewelry from gold, or drive a car around. Every form of currency aside from digital blips (as you put it) has some physical value, however little.
But artificial wealth, dollars, bonds, contracts, etc, is created sheerly by human whim, and rises or falls in value based on that whim. The government's whim, in the case of money, is absolute, most directly because of taxation.
Wealth is an extension of a man's emotional state, fluctuating with circumstance and desire. Indeed, men are blessed with the resources of this globe, but like the desert nomad who believes two jugs of water more valuable than a lake, we impoverish ourselves via arbitrary quantification and divisions.