Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoHow is taxation not theft?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down175file-text
arrow-up1-55arrow-down1message-squareHow is taxation not theft?Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
You don’t agree to pay it. You can’t opt out and if you don’t pay you get put in jail. How is this not theft?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoI mean, maybe it is, but so what? The law of the jungle never ended; you can do whatever you want with enough force on your side. Put another way, we arbitrarily exclude the ruling state from the definition of theft, so we can discuss the extralegal kind better.
I mean, maybe it is, but so what? The law of the jungle never ended; you can do whatever you want with enough force on your side.
Put another way, we arbitrarily exclude the ruling state from the definition of theft, so we can discuss the extralegal kind better.