Quote from: justusranvier on August 26, 2014, 08:03:24 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on August 26, 2014, 06:50:58 PM

Taxation is NOT rape, and it is NOWHERE near even close to rape... and people are being disingenuous and deceptive when they are attempting to frame reasonable conversation with such inappropriate and diverting analogies.

They are both involuntary impositions of one person's will onto another person.

In the case of rape, the victim submits to unwanted sex either because they are physically incapable of stopping it, or because they've been threatened with even greater harm unless the cooperate.

In the case of tax, the victim pays either because the money has been taken from them before they had the opportunity to resist, or because they are threatened with greater harm unless they comply.

The analogy is perfectly accurate, which is exactly why those humans who use the state to prey upon other humans hate it. Their work is much easier if they can do it in the shadows, and cloak their predations in the illusion of respectability.

We can agree to disagree and I am NOT going to play into simplified framework. Your framework attempts to trivialize the role of government, and to engage in distracting and unnecessary inflammations by attempting to trivialize the role of government and the necessity of taxes in order to spread out the burden. Surely, there may be better ways to distribute resources and to construct tax mechanisms and to fix community input, but the burden remains on you if you want to describe how society transforms from its current state to a state without taxes or without government or even minimal taxes and government.

Too simple to merely say, let's get rid of government and taxes b/c they are like rape...