TK CTV on Nostr: Taxes involve coercion. So by proxy any coercive action that forces you to do any act ...
Taxes involve coercion. So by proxy any coercive action that forces you to do any act you otherwise would not do is immoral. Taxes are backed by the threat of forcing you in a cage (or worse death) if you do not comply with said tax. You do not get to protest, you don't get to vote on it, you don't even have a say. It's just "the way things have always been" so everyone just goes along with it.
If a thief steals from you, your own money, you'd call it theft every single time. But for someone reason a mythical thing called "government " comes and takes your money under that same threat as the robber/ thief its all of a sudden not robbery?
What makes the 2 different is when the thief gets what he wants he will normally dissappear and never be seen by you again. Government on the other hand takes your money buys things "for you" that you didnt want, tells you it's for your own good, then continues to follow you around to do this act for your entire life ensuring you is in your best interest to allow them to keep doing it.
If a thief steals from you, your own money, you'd call it theft every single time. But for someone reason a mythical thing called "government " comes and takes your money under that same threat as the robber/ thief its all of a sudden not robbery?
What makes the 2 different is when the thief gets what he wants he will normally dissappear and never be seen by you again. Government on the other hand takes your money buys things "for you" that you didnt want, tells you it's for your own good, then continues to follow you around to do this act for your entire life ensuring you is in your best interest to allow them to keep doing it.