“Beggars can’t be choosers, I know. But still: I prefer brats.”
Accordingly, it is still more accurate to say that taxation is lifelong extortionate slavery – you get to keep some of your production, provided you concede that the prior claimant is the state.
Less important than the stolen wealth is the coerced concession, since you can’t rule the world on insane premises unless everybody goes along. But as soon as you acknowledge the insanity, you’re free to see it for what it is: There cannot be a right to predation, nor can there be any reason to suffer predation – and to deny either claim is not just insane but literally self-enslaving.
You’ll do what you must to stay out of jail, but you can declare you independence right now from the idea of predation: The state does not have any right to prey upon you – but you have no right to prey upon anyone else, either.
There’s more to ridding humanity of the scourge of government – the terminal disease masquerading as its own cure – than robbing it of the power to tax. But government will be a whole lot less attractive to predators when it is once again starved for funds.
In other news:
Housing Wire: June jobs report is great news for the housing market.
City Journal: Our American Inheritance.
Frontpage: Celebrating Freedom in the Shadow of Tyranny.
Julie Kelly: Defund the FBI.
FEE.org: Famous Investor: The Homeschooling Boom Is Just Beginning.
