11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Majjin 10 May 2022 \ on: Food for tought: if you need to pay taxes to keep your things, are they really yours? bitcoin
My view is that you have the natural right of property no matter what. If you own your body (which you do), you own the products of your labor. Anything you get in peaceful, consensual exchange you own.
What happens with taxes is that glorified armed robbers steal from you what is rightfully yours. In the case of property tax, if you don't let the armed robbers take your money, they'll come seize your land and house.
There are only three differences between the glorified armed robbers and the common thief/mugger/burglar.
- They seek to rule over you with the threat of violence "for your own good and the good of the people"
- They've brainwashed people into thinking they are necessary, inevitable, and justified.
- They send strongly worded letters and phone calls before they physically rob you (and probably kidnap you for non-compliance).
I'd rather deal with the mugger. At least when he steals from me, he doesn't try to convince me that its for the good of the people and myself.
👏
reply