[MACVSOG68]

I'm not sure why you think one cannot answer a hypothetical question about another form of taxation. I don't think that. I never said one couldn't provide an answer. I merely asked why you proffered a hypothetical.

Well, you said that compulsion or coercion was wrong (do such and such or else), and so I said that even if the current tax system was done away with, business owners would still have that same requirement. I then went on to say that essentially all laws are coercive in one way or another. Perhaps there are a few exceptions, but not many. Hope that helps.

[philman_36]

...so I said...
No, you hypothesized. See "if" emphasized above.

I then went on to say that essentially all laws are coercive in one way or another.
No, you made a declatory statement with no conditions.
Which I proved by example to be an inaccurate statement to which you've yet completely disproven. No comments forthcoming about "after the fact" laws.

Perhaps there are a few exceptions, but not many.
And here you disprove you own assetion that ALL laws are coercive. No changing the goalposts now, that isn't cricket!