Post
Topic
Board Politics & Society
Re: Why do people think income tax is ok?
by
tspacepilot
on 25/01/2014, 01:15:49 UTC
...it's not stealing if you willingly give up something.

For the umpteenth time, I do not willingly pay tax. I pay tax because I don't want to:

a) Go to prison;
b) Leave my friends and family;
c) Live off the work of others.

You can call those 'choices' if you want - same way as if you were mugged at knifepoint in the street, you might 'choose' to give up your wallet to avoid being stabbed. Doesn't make it voluntary, does it?

I think this post is pretty right.  There are situations which, strictly speaking, are voluntary. Yet practically, they are not.  A 'choice' between jail/death and a wallet isn't much of a choice IMHO' that's coercion.