ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

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(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.

This is what Marx mocked as "merely formal freedom". when you are coerced by your economic situation to sign a "voluntary" contract it is not really voluntary.