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My post earlier today on Obama's tax plan has generated some pretty interesting comments, most notably from several people who have a hard time understanding the concept of theft. (To be fair, John McCain is also a thief, for he is an advocate, most ominously, of the criminal income tax and central state, which can only exist by first stealing from its citizens.)
Taxation is theft. Whenever someone -- anyone -- relieves you of your property against your will, it's theft. What I find most bizarre is that this elementary definition can be spun and contorted in innumerable ways by people convinced that we all have some obligation to our fellow man; to contribute to the "common good."
This outlook is bunk, to say the least, but it surely explains how we've come to be led by the nose so easily by our Washington elite.
As explained by legendary Austrian economist Frank Chodorov in his essay, Taxation Is Robbery, "There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion."
It's entirely disheartening that the vast majority of humanity excuses -- even endorses -- such widespread violation of property rights so long as it's committed by officials elected to steal on its behalf under the guise of compassion. But a group of six bank robbers is no more moral than the lone assailant. Moreover, passing laws to do in public that which would get one thrown in jail for doing privately is still evil.
Taxation is theft. Natural rights trump legal rights. In the immortal words of Murray Rothbard, "The State is a band of thieves writ large."
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