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I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.

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Is having to pay rent the same as someone forcibly taking away your property? I think the issue is a disagreement of the framing. Taxation isn't theft any more than rent is theft. Benjamin Franklin had this to say: press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/docum

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Rent is voluntary. Taxation and theft aren't. That is a pretty big difference.

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Rent is no more voluntary than taxation are. You continue to live on your landlord's land or if you continue to use a car but don't make payments on it, they have every right to seize it. It's not theft. Refusing to pay taxes is theft. You can always leave the country.

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the US is one of the only countries to tax its citizens even if they leave the country

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Okay, then renounce your claim. You have the freedom to do so.

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They tax you even if you renounce your claim, and the process is very difficult and expensive; lots of people can't afford to do so.

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I bet if you have enough wealth that you accumulated by the privilege of being an American citizen, you can probably afford it. And sure, you still owe the landlord for skipped rent and they can take you to court.