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Board Politics & Society
Re: Why do people think income tax is ok?
by
apsvinet
on 22/03/2014, 10:07:44 UTC
People supported slavery too.

And when they talked about it, they always talked about the benefits...not the use of force against humans.
>Compare taxes to slavery
>Think you're making a point
>Look like a giant douche

The difference between slavery and taxes is that not all people were directly affected by
slavery, it was discrimination towards a specific group of people.

There are other differences.  Taxes finance common goods for all society.  Taxes are paid by those who can afford them - slavery was imposed at random on whoever happened to be captured that day or happened to be born a slave.  Taxes are a minor inconvenience that people bitch about but never do anything to change.  Slavery destroyed lives and  people risked death and torture to escape.  

I could go on.


Rofl, of course there are other differences, I only stated the one that was relevant to the point he was trying to make.