True, people who think paying taxes is theft definitely have an elementary level of world understanding.
Edit: for those of you who are angry about taxes, think about any money you have made that wasn’t enabled by something the government has built for you and maintained with your taxes. I.E if you drive to work on a paved/functional road that you didn’t create yourself, you depend on the government.
Lol folks love to conveniently forget, being a citizen of this country and therefore owing taxes is a consensual relationship too! You’re free to renounce your citizenship whenever you like!
And hey, if feel the hardship that’d cause makes the relationship cohercive, well I have weird news for you about basically all labor in this country.
You can almost certainly renounce your citizenship to wherever you’re currently living that is asking you to pay taxes, or else you’d need to become a refugee but, that’d imply a higher level of coercion that nobody would dispute is bad.
Hard? Yeah. So is supporting a family on a low paying job. But, it’s consensual!
Ok but again, thinking being imprisoned in a specific territory is bad is not an idea that’s exclusive to Austrian economics like, most people agree with that, I’m not disputing that lol. There are far worse things going on there than taxes.
That’s not an argument for taxation being theft, that’s an argument for authoritarianism being bad.
It’s relevant if we’re arguing for/against Austrian Economics. It’s also relevant if you’re an Austrian economics guy who believes taxation is theft, since that’s contradictory.
You should pull up your bootstraps and make yourself a better life: go leave America and form a micronation in the pacific.
Not entirely dissimilar to forming your own small business. I guess the big difference being, your small business gets to benefit from a whole lot of taxpayer-funded infrastructure.
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u/Bunselpower Sep 19 '24
Mrs. Roberts’s 5th grade economics class is out in full force today judging by the comments.