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Originally Posted by BuckNaked
Taxation is the price of membership! You can always go someplace else!
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As to the territory issue, why doesn't the State just leave? Wwho is entitled to occupy the space?" Perhaps a hardcore statist would simply assume that the government rightfully owns everything, but libertarians reject that assumption, given the State's history of conquest and plunder. We believe rightful property comes from homesteading and voluntary exchange, not conquest. The State doesn't rightfully own this property; people do.
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Now if want to discuss how the government wastes tax money that is a different story. Corporate welfare is the redistribution of "wealth"!
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I agree that there is a great deal of waste, fraud and abuse. So why shouldn't we be able to withhold our money until they PROVE they can be responsible with it?
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Corporate welfare is the redistribution of "wealth"!
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Semantics. While I think corporate welfare is wrong, and should be stopped, stealing from ANYONE via taxation and then giving that money to ANYONE else is theft.
We had a detailed discussion about this earlier.