Comments on: Taxation Really Is Theft!

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Kangas was hiding out in a bathroom near Richard Mellon Scaife's office for hours. Apparently, when his plot to murder the newspaper owner (a great freedom of speech advocate, no?) failed, he drank himself into a stupor in the bathroom stall. When the janitor came to clean the bathroom, he likely realized he wouldn't be able to try again the next day, whereupon he shot himself.

I had occasion to read his smug, fallacy-ridden posts to Usenet for years. After his ignominious death, not only did his previous allies not accept reality, spinning wild tales of him being assassinated and framed, they lionized him and put up several shrines where they host mirrors of his website.

That was a rather mild example of the depths to which those moonbats went to deny reality.

By: no third solution » Blog Archive » Taxation is Still Theft, No Matter How Many Logical Fallacies You Employ

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:51:46 +0000

[...] to Taxation Really Is Theft, smally pointed me to four essays by Liz Anderson (forgive my familiar tone; [...]

By: David Z

David Z — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:24:00 +0000

I wanted to stop reading after she characterizes anyone who disagrees with her as a “bomb-throwing anarchist”.

I’ll have more to say on this topic…

By: smally

smally — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:00:50 +0000

The most comprehensive defense of taxaxtion I've read on the web is the series How Not to Complain About Taxes (parts One, Two, Three and Four by the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson. It's been a while since I read it, but I thought you might be interested.

By: Blagnet.net » Minarchist states and basic necessities

Blagnet.net » Minarchist states and basic necessities — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:06:18 +0000

[...] to David Z.’s recent post about social contracts and voluntary taxation and other nonsense, Taxation really is theft! His friend Zach S. left a comment that included this paragraph, which I really disagree with: I [...]

By: John

John — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:30:51 +0000

This is a couple days old, but I felt I needed to respond to this:
Zach S. wrote: “I believe Brad G and I spoke about this and his idea would be for the government to run the most basic of needs: fire department, police department, military, etc.”

I can think of at least four things that are more basic than fire departments, police, and military: food, water, shelter, medicine.

No one who isn’t a completely delusional State-worshipping socialist would argue that those four things should be provided by the State. It is both wrong and inefficient. So why is the free market better at providing those absolute basic necessities of life, but not even better at providing some secondary necessities for a peaceful society, like fire departments and criminal investigation/prosecution?

By: no third solution » Blog Archive » How to Destroy the Middle Class

no third solution » Blog Archive » How to Destroy the Middle Class — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:56:30 +0000

[...] I’m sorry if you believed that line about “Only people earning more than $250,000 a year,” you’re in for one hell of a surprise. And, if you thought it was OK to raise taxes on other people, just so your own tax bill wouldn’t go up, you’re a sorry excuse for a human being, because all forms of taxation are really theft. [...]

By: Azrael

Azrael — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:03:21 +0000

Slam Dunk!

By: Gilligan

Gilligan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:38:20 +0000

David,

Excellent work!

By: Cork

Cork — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:38:05 +0000

A shame Kangas didn’t read No Treason, which already addressed all of his arguments for the so-called social contract.

Great post.