(10-27-2021, 06:45 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(10-27-2021, 06:42 PM)mikesez Wrote: Only a fool would call taxation theft.

Taxation is theft. How else would you describe it?

Back to your topic, the purpose of the RMD is to force taxation even when the distribution may not be required. That is theft.

Taxation is essential to the authority of government and it is also the basis of paper currency.
If you pay no taxes, no one governs you.
If you owe no taxes in dollars, you don't care if your customers and vendors want to switch to euros or bitcoins. 
Taxes have been around for thousands of years and will continue to be the basis of government and society for thousands more.  It is not theft.  It is social glue.

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