01-17-2017, 04:34 PM
(01-17-2017, 12:45 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-17-2017, 07:37 AM)Mikebert Wrote:(01-17-2017, 03:37 AM)Galen Wrote: see, if someone should refuse to pay taxes then people with guns show up and take what they want. In effect by taking the earnings and property of another then the taxpayer in question is working for someone they would rather not. If the slave does not work then he is subject violence. Its a little more roundabout being one of the tax livestock but the results are much the same which is some form of involuntary servitude.
And if tenant farmer doesn't pay his rent, men with guns show up and deprive him of his livelihood. What's your point?
The tenant farmer signed a legal agreement much like the legal agreements that I've signed with banks. You should be smart enough to get the point and understand the difference between legally committing oneself and being socially/legally committed by others without your consent. I'm pretty sure you would make a big stink and put up a fight if you were financially bound to an agreement that you didn't sign/authorize.
Exactly right.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises