Happy (belated) Taxation is Theft Day! If you live in the geographical area known as the United States of America, you just got fleeced by tax season! Not only did the government forcibly take your income under the threat of violence, but they made YOU calculate how much you “owed” them. In today’s episode I connect the dots between taxation being theft (or extortion) and how by definition, that makes us all slaves to the respective governments who would claim to rule us.
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Show Notes:
Liberty Weekly: Libertarian Anarchists Are Modern Day Abolitionists
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Taxation is Theft Mises Wire
Frank Chodorov: Taxation Is Robbery Mises Daily
Michael S. Rozeff: Taxation Isnt’t Only Theft, It’s Destruction Mises Wire
US Legal: Elements of Extortion
Quizlet: Criminal Law: Property Crimes: Theft Offenses
Larken Rose: How is Taxation Not Theft?
Keith Knight’s Don’t Tread on Anyone