Originally posted by cdtm
I'm not the one arguing against all taxes. 🙂In a vacuum, his principle makes enough sense, I think. Assuming I'm right about what he really means:
Use of force is the problem.
From his side, he is hyper-focused on the idea that taxation is compulsory on threat of imprisonment. He thinks forcing yourself on a person is wrong. He thinks other people deciding how much tax is fair, and dictating to you how much you need to pay, all without your input or consent on the basis of where you happened to be born, is a terrible injustice.
Its clearly more complex then that, and society would indeed stop functioning if everyone had the choice to opt out while using public goods and services, but you don't get to that point in logic untill you can get past the idea that you are entirely powerless as an individual before an unjust state.
Yeah, I try to have universalized deontological morals. Taxes suck to me and always will because of that.
People's lack of creativity to be corroborative in a non zero sum capacity usually comes from being subjected to cruel parenting. So in every statist I see a victim crying out for a society that would have been fair and compassionate enough to save people from childhood's like theirs. Obviously people concoct personal mythologies on top of this fact and out comes something about how collectivism is a morally scrupulous political philosophy.
Have you ever read on why market failures and public goods are state mythologies ?