You don’t agree to pay it. You can’t opt out and if you don’t pay you get put in jail. How is this not theft?

  • voracitude@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Taxation is not theft because you get a functioning society in return (in theory); effectively, you get free time to pursue your interests instead of being forced to scrounge for survival.

    Now, the government issuing more currency at will… that reduces the value of the money we all earn at those jobs we work in order to pay the taxes. That is theft.