Taxation is Theft!
It’s a Lie!
Taxation is insurance against disaster, criminality and revolution. What is theft is misuse of taxation income.
Taxation at its most basic form is the act of the State acquiring a reserve of food (and seed) against a bad harvest or loss of stored crops. Which in the hands of a compassionate Prince rapidly extends to a basic Grain Dole for the poor.
A clear step up from [insert biblical references to gleaning and orchard harvesting]. In the Roman Empire in 58BCE it took the next logical step, and became a universal Grain Dole. Providing the poor with the basis of life, enough to keep Body and Soul together a day longer. Give us this day our daily bread was not a plea for a poverty stricken Roman Citizen, but part of their contract with the State. Of course it was rapidly reduced to only the poorest 50% or so even Caesar decried Middle Class Welfare.
Taxation at its most basic form is the act of the State acquiring a reserve of food (and seed) against a bad harvest or loss of stored crops. Which in the hands of a compassionate Prince rapidly extends to a basic Grain Dole for the poor.
A clear step up from [insert biblical references to gleaning and orchard harvesting]. In the Roman Empire in 58BCE it took the next logical step, and became a universal Grain Dole. Providing the poor with the basis of life, enough to keep Body and Soul together a day longer. Give us this day our daily bread was not a plea for a poverty stricken Roman Citizen, but part of their contract with the State. Of course it was rapidly reduced to only the poorest 50% or so even Caesar decried Middle Class Welfare.
Theft of Tax Revenue can be many things. Military White Elephants are theft if they are not projects of innovation, funding research and development of technologies with civilian spinoff potential. Military adventurism is likewise theft, not just of Tax revenue, but also of the taxpayers’ very lives. Adventurism should be contrasted with actual defense and the rare but unfortunately necessary Just War. Which as an aside brings us to Military Conscription, which is theft, of liberty and labour and at times life itself.
Tax, redistributed as an income support payment of some kind, discourages the very poor from robbing, or or even killing and eating the very rich. Restrict such bribery too far, and you create the incentive to engage in freelance socialism, or even barbeque the Patricians. Most civilised people are only a couple of days of empty bellies off rioting on the streets.
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