Quote from: wareen on October 06, 2012, 03:53:01 PM

Quote from: hazek on October 06, 2012, 03:14:13 PM

So you disagree with this?:

Quote from: hazek on October 06, 2012, 02:19:15 PM

Taxes are no more a great thing than a band of thieves robbing a whole village and then using some of the loot to pay for a homeless family's dinner and shelter. It's still theft and it's still wrong.

Yes, because for one thing the village probably hasn't elected the "band of thieves" democratically and "robbing" is per definition violent, which collecting taxes usually is not. I get your point but the comparison is overly-dramatic.

Please refute one of the two correlations at the beginning of my last post.

Oh I didn't vote for this band of thugs commonly referred to as government either, I didn't vote at all, does that mean that forcing me to pay taxes is wrong?

Btw do you know what happens if you don't "pay taxes"? If you think I can't call it robbery and if you think it's not a violent act just because people choose to rather pay up when demanded rather than refusing then I suggest you do a test, stop paying and then see what happens. I wonder if you'll still say it's not violent or not a robbery.

I did refute your correlation. STEALING IS WRONG, even if it does a some good as illustrated with my example, PERIOD.