If 51% of people vote for higher taxes on wages (specific to our discussion), did the ...

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2025-02-06 17:33:21

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If 51% of people vote for higher taxes on wages (specific to our discussion), did the other 49% consent? It was a democratic “decision”, but the minority did not decide or consent.

Yeah, the devil is in the details.

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A portion of those people will not “happily consent to sharing”. Taking property of others without their consent is theft.

You are conflating personal property with monetary wealth – false equivalence, taxation is not theft.

And taxation is moral imperative as well, because unless you tax wealth to prevent people from hoarding wealth for the purpose of eliminating market competition and corrupting the law, you end up in the same situation we are in right now, with a few people so rich they get to govern without any consent of the governed at all.

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