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Originally Posted by ashideena";p="
Truth-Bringer: Taxation is part of the social contract, plain and simple. I fail to see how it constitutes theft.
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Ah...the mythical Social Contract...the Holy Grail of Statists and Collectivists everywhere. One problem though - it doesn't exist. All contracts must entered into KNOWINGLY and VOLUNTARILY. There is no "society" to contract with -that's the reification fallacy. If every individual human being on earth suddenly dies, does society still exist? No.
Collectivizing into a group grants no new rights to the group. No collective majority has the right to deprive a minority of rights - and the smallest minority on earth is the individual.
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The government protects your rights and generally aids society with your tax monies.
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So the Nazis protected the rights of the Jews and aided them with tax revenue? The Soviet Union protected the rights of its citizens and aided them with tax money - or did it subjegate them with tax money? The list goes on and on. Governments have killed more human beings in history than any other group on the planet, by far. You need to do a little more research:
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/rape8.shtml
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Sounds like you're paying for a service you have implicitly agreed to by living and working within whatever country you live in.
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I didn't agree knowingly and voluntarily to any such service. If the issue is territory, when did the State get the right to the land? If you're going to say "well you can get out of the "contract" if you just leave" - my reply is "why doesn't the State just leave?"
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To help me understand your argument. Do you, for instance, think all forms of taxation are theft? Payroll tax, social security, sales, etc?
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Any money or property taken by threat of force or force is theft, regardless of the terminology used to describe it.