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To: generally
My definition of slavery: having the fruits of your labor forcibly taken from you

What society ever had no taxation?

88 posted on 06/23/2015 11:34:16 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Societies without governments, so nothing in modern times that I’m aware of. But there is a big difference between taxation that pays for necessities like defense and confiscatory taxation that is really just graft, corruption, redistribution, and enrichment of the “ruling class” at the expense of the working class.

Most of us are willing to pay taxes that give us defense, police and fire protection, infrastructure like roads and bridges.

Some of us (not me) are willing to pay taxes that give us schools, high speed rail, sports stadiums, etc. (I’m not against any of those things. I just think rail and sports should be funded by those businesses, not the taxpayer. I think schools are the responsibility of parents and/or students, not society.)

Few of us are willing to pay taxes that get funneled into ever larger bureaucracies and pay welfare recipients or unemployment. I’m not against charity when it is needed. I’m against the government being involved in it.


98 posted on 06/24/2015 8:30:15 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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