• redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      That might be the point they are (terribly) trying to make: that taxing people (i) takes away their choice/freedom and (ii) forces taxpayers to fund the ‘lifestyle’ of others. It’s the populist version of Hayek-Nozick.

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      If they’re ideologically consistent then they’d argue that taxation is theft. And since they seem to think that slavery is wrong purely because the individual is being deprived of pay, then they’d probably say that taxation is morally equivalent to slavery as well.

      They’re wrong, but they’d probably say that.