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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“I'm hungry, there's apple, I'll eat it. — You can't, it's not yours.” Do you consider this good, or a necessary evil? It's an important question, because taxes are the other side of that very coin.
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I tend to agree with you (in that minimalist govt is *often* the best govt), but I wonder if it make sense to even view it in those terms? Consent (even in the case of sexuality) isn’t really black and white, and so stark moral terminology doesn’t seem to fit the bill, imo.
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Consent feels incredibly salient to me, and everything is pinned on top of it, and dear tradeoffs made with it. It feels like one of the fundamental building blocks of a complex and functional system, like almost a law of physics.
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I don’t think consent is warranted as a moral standard in this situation bc of the consequences of allowing it to be one, and also bc most of what we call our property isn’t derived purely from our merits but involves making use of public resources (understood broadly).
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That is, it isn’t just the roads or the public safety or the other education. It’s also, for example, someone’s UI payment allowing them to find a better job. The higher salary of the job obtained due to UI goes to pay for consumption of more goods.
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And the ultimate issue is the amount of tax that is needed to operate an inefficient government full of wasteful spending that never seems to be accounted for. If government doesn't feel like they can get a tax increase passed, they simply add another fee.
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I found this really enlightening.
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