"Fair" Taxation

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:31:13 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Becky Akers at New American - there's been a lot of noise about a "fair" tax, to replace the current income tax. Nonsense. There is no such thing as a fair tax. Taxation, no matter how it's levied, is extortion, pure and simple. And there's no way to justify it. Nor does it matter how rich are the extorted. Theft is theft. And no amount of sugar coating can change that.

Pretend you’re at church for Morning Worship, or attending a crowded lecture, or watching Hollywood’s latest with a few hundred other fans. Suddenly, a SWAT team breaks down the door, submachine guns at the ready. Amid screams, their commander shouts, “Listen up! We’re gonna kill 10% of you — but the mayor was very clear that we gotta be fair about it. So, how ya wanna do this? Should we draw names out of a hat? Go through and shoot every tenth person? Maybe we oughta just work our way down from oldest and sickest until we get to 10%. Or ya want us to take volunteers first? I’m open to suggestions.”

Yep, this is insane. Ditto if the mayor merely commanded the SWATters to rape rather than murder 10% of the audience. There is no “fair” way to commit such heinous crimes.

Why then do we insist there’s a “fair” way to steal — or, in the State’s euphemism, to tax? Whatever we call it, taking money from people against their will violates both the Eighth Commandment and the Golden Rule. And it’s always, everywhere a crime — unless committed on the government’s behalf. Our Rulers speciously exempt their employer, benefactor and god from its own rules.

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