Taxation is theft.
The way I understand Barry’s comment is that his concept of taxation is different from the commonly held view. In the common defn we have agreed w/ the govt that we’ll give some part of our property to them. The idea of private ownership is in force....its ours to give by mutual consent. His view is all your property belongs to the govt and for now they’re letting us keep some of it, ie no private ownership. So, this isn’t taxation as we all think of it. To be fair I suspect most pols in DC and the various state houses share Barry’s view. They’re just no unpolitic to say so in public.
The way I understand Barry’s comment is that his concept of taxation is different from the commonly held view. In the common defn we have agreed w/ the govt that we’ll give some part of our property to them. The idea of private ownership is in force....its ours to give by mutual consent. His view is all your property belongs to the govt and for now they’re letting us keep some of it, ie no private ownership. So, this isn’t taxation as we all think of it. To be fair I suspect most pols in DC and the various state houses share Barry’s view. They’re just no unpolitic to say so in public.