Taxation is Theft

1. Government wealth redistribution for any reason constitutes mandatory charity, and in the long term has the same devolutionary results because it sustains human weakness. Effectively it brings human excellence down to a level of mediocrity in order to elevate human rottenness up to a level of mediocrity.

2. Taxation of any kind is wealth redistribution because it allows use of government services out of proportion to payment for that use. User fees do not have this effect, nor do lotteries of designated purpose. Lotteries are simply a more generalized form of user fee, because they are funded voluntarily by those supporting the particular policy paid for by the lottery.

3. Taxation is theft. There is no justification for it whatsoever and there never has been. It was long ago established that all legitimate government services can be paid for directly by those utilizing them, in direct proportion to that use, just as in the private sector. User fees are not theft because they are not taken at gun point the way taxes are.

4. Government has only one legitimate function: to provide redress when people unjustly assault, coerce, defraud, or encroach upon each other or the environment to the detriment of any living thing. This function is performed by military, judicial, and correctional branches at the federal, state, and local levels.

"All this Socialist hair splitting about who owns the means of production is a big steaming kettle of pig crap cooked up to keep people talking so they won't think. If government can exact at gun point any part of what you earn, then who owns the business, you or your silent partner?" inquires Dirk the Sun Warrior as he toys expertly with his consecrated war dagger, Liberator.

5. He who would tax you commands that you not only acquiesce in your own servitude but that you actively participate in the devolution of your own species.

6. To permit taxation in a free society is the exact equivalent of introducing disease into a healthy body. Well informed rational people would never do either.

7. Unlimited power to borrow and tax leads to unlimited spending and growth in the size of government. It becomes like The Blob - "The more it eats, the bigger it gets. The bigger it gets, the more it eats. It's already sniffin after ya, an one o' these days it's gonna catch up with ya !"

"It may be very difficult in a collectivist society to disseminate truth without being harassed. In most countries it is smarter for now to pay all of your taxes and keep very clear and simple records. The day will come when we will have it back a thousand fold because those who rob us now, in the end, will polish our shoes" foretells Dirk the Sun Warrior.

8. Government agencies in a collectivist society usually reach a point where they begin to exceed their authority. They develop lives of their own with agendas of their own, often in conflict with each other, usually in conflict with individual liberty. Only the unlimited flow of stolen funds an allow this.

9. The collectivist has an endless faith in the ability of government to make everything better, although he often curses "those crooked politicians" individually. It is power over others which creates all social problems. It never solves them. Other than the organized military, judicial, and correctional defense of individual liberty, there is no legitimate activity currently allocated to government anywhere that cannot be performed better and more efficiently by free and inspired individuals in the private sector than by regulated and lethargic bureaucrats.

10. It is not government's place to play the puppet master by trying to "motivate" people with tax "incentives" or incentives of any kind, except towards the preservation of liberty. It should be appreciated that any amount of taxation provides a disincentive towards work for the victim, while at the same time providing an increasing incentive for inactivity to the recipient.

11. The equivalent of a naturally balanced ecology in the sphere of human relationships is possible only in a Libertarian republic. Under such a system, all incentives, sanctions, deterrents, and rewards, either of a social or of an economic nature, are determined by the natural laws of supply and demand, rather than by pompous bureaucrats whose only activity is the interference in the activity of others. These agents of impediment usually are what they are simply because they haven't the courage, the character, or in many cases the basic ability necessary to succeed as entrepreneurs.