{"id":18282,"date":"2021-07-03T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18282"},"modified":"2021-07-03T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:54:16","slug":"overnight-news-taxation-is-theft-no-taxation-is-lifelong-extortionate-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18282\/overnight-news-taxation-is-theft-no-taxation-is-lifelong-extortionate-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Taxation is theft? No. Taxation is lifelong extortionate slavery."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cBeggars can\u2019t be choosers, I know. But still: I prefer\u00a0brats.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Libertarians like to say that taxation is theft, but it is more accurate to say that taxation is extortion \u2013 your funds are not stolen undefended, you hand them over voluntarily in response to a threat.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, it is still more accurate to say that taxation is lifelong extortionate slavery \u2013 you get to keep some of your production, provided you concede that the prior claimant is the state.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 and to deny either claim is not just insane but literally self-enslaving.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 but you have no right to prey upon anyone else, either.<\/p>\n

There’s more to ridding humanity of the scourge of government \u2013 the terminal disease masquerading as its own cure \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> June jobs report is great news for the housing market.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Our American Inheritance.<\/a><\/p>\n

Frontpage:<\/strong> Celebrating Freedom in the Shadow of Tyranny.<\/a><\/p>\n

Julie Kelly:<\/strong> Defund the FBI.<\/a><\/p>\n

FEE.org:<\/strong> Famous Investor: The Homeschooling Boom Is Just Beginning.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBeggars can\u2019t be choosers, I know. But still: I prefer\u00a0brats.\u201dLibertarians like to say that taxation is theft, but it is more accurate to say that taxation is extortion \u2013 your funds are not stolen undefended, you hand them over voluntarily in response to a threat. Accordingly, it is still more accurate to say that taxation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15256,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15256\/why-do-liberals-and-progressives-in-america-deny-their-beliefs\/","url_meta":{"origin":18282,"position":0},"title":"Why do Liberals and Progressives in America deny their beliefs?","author":"Al Lorenz","date":"October 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"While reading Jeff's post asking about how people can justify theft from others in the name of government, I was most stricken by the absolute denial from those who defended more and more taxation have over their own beliefs.\u00a0 Even though they clearly support socialism, and can put forward tales\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12165,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12165\/the-first-word-in-free-enterprise-is-free-how-economic-fallacies-are-deployed-to-frustrate-human-liberty\/","url_meta":{"origin":18282,"position":1},"title":"The first word in “free enterprise” is “free” — how economic fallacies are deployed to frustrate human liberty.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In a comment to my post on the NAR's most recent attempts to rape the taxpayers, Michael Cook set forth a number of subtle economic fallacies. 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