A. Robbery is seizing another's justly-owned property without the owner's consent.
B. In taxation, representatives of government seize subjects' justly-owned property without their subjects consent-always under the threat of severe penalties if they refuse to comply.
C. Therefore, taxation is definitionally and morally synonymous with robbery.
Bonds issued by governments are repaid through money collected through taxation. Why do bond advocates want to promote something that will result in more theft of property by government agents?
Why is using stolen money to help people moral?
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Is it also theft to collect money for self-defense, for schools, for roads and bridges, for police, courts or firefighters?
ReplyDeleteThese extreme positions of the Libertarian Party you advance keep that party a sub-minority party.
If a majority gives its consent for what you call robbery is that not the core of a democracy?
The Constitution in its pre-amble says: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” What is the “general Welfare”?
I am afraid I have to part company with you on this one. John v.
July 6, 2009 1:55 PM
Yes, collecting money through coercion is theft. What's wrong with voluntarily contributing money for self-defence, for schools, for infranstructure, for police, courts, or firefighters? If a majority gives its consent to enslave people, or to put them into death camps, because of an accident of birth, is that not democracy? Is it true that the general welfare clause has been used to wage war on people in the US and elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteJuly 6, 2009 2:04 PM