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RE: Taxes Aren't Illegal. Taxes Aren't Theft

in #politics6 years ago

I have never heard a single libertarian say that taxation is "illegal," but rather that the state made it legal long after the Constitution was ratified. Legality, though, does not make something morally right.

The idea of a social contract does not hold water, David. If you had lived during Prohibition times, would you have told the person who considered it a violation of their rights to "just leave" if they didn't like it? It's part of the social contract, after all. What if the states ratified an amendment prohibiting abortion? "Social contract!"

The United States does not "own" me or my property by fiat. The concept of a social contract is a fiction designed to legitimize whatever the state deems to do, whether those things are moral in your eyes or they are atrocities.