@carstairs, this is a brilliant article and tackles statism in a way I haven't seen before. The problem is, people don't believe government is coercive or violent. They believe taxation is perfectly moral and virtuous.
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Thanks for the compliment. With this argument, I don't think you need to convince people that taxation is bad. I'd still ask them "if the same job could be done without taxation, wouldn't it be nicer?" then I'd ask how much research they've done to rule out all other proposed options. Because taxation necessarily closes a lot of opportunity for potentially better solutions, they better be damn sure that "it's the only way."