Mark Passio: Knowing Rights - Taxation

Subject: Mark Passio: Knowing Rights - Taxation Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:51 pm

Mark Passio explains how TAXATION is the claim that a group of people who call themselves "government" have been given the "right" to confiscate an arbitrary-chosen percentage of the product of another individuals labor (a form of Property), whether or not the others agree to share that product voluntarily. Taxation is enforced by the threat of violence (behaviour resulting in bodily harm) or imprisonment (the taking away of physical) if those from whom the product is being seized attempt to resist the confiscation. This practice is always "justified" ("made into a right") by those who claim that such a practice is necessary and required to "uphold the common good." If we define Slavery as involuntary confiscation of 100% of the product of the labor of another human being, we can clearly see that there is no magical percentage to which we could lower this number(other than 0%) that would no longer constitute Slavery. If we are being honest with ourselves, Taxation is merely a euphemism for Theft, Violence and Slavery, the practices upon which it is actually based. Since no individual anywhere on Earth has the "right" to claim ownership of the product of another's labor, such behaviour can never be "delegated" to a group, and called a "right." Therefore, all forms of Taxation are always WRONG according to Natural Law.

Mark Passio: Knowing Rights - Taxation

Mark Passio: Knowing Rights - Taxation

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