0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 12 Mar \ on: Taxation is theft is too weak. It's much worse than that libertarian
I see taxes as the fee to use the facilities of the club.
Without those facilities, I wouldn't have access to the Internet. I wouldn't have street lights, or roads to drive.
I would also not be able to buy bread at the corner shop because the baker as well wouldn't have access to all the things he needs to make the bread to sell to me.
Let's say you built your own home. Nice, but there wouldn't be water or electricity.
I think it would be much, much harder to generate value, and therefore your money, if you didn't use anything that the government has provided for you over the years, either directly, or indirectly.
There are other ways to do it though, some countries that have other ways of making money don't charge tax, like these ones, but you quickly realize that they are tiny, and they usually have other forms of tax anyway.