(07-11-2019, 11:21 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-11-2019, 08:31 AM)mikesez Wrote: The people sent to represent you consented to the taxation. 
Decisions about your body are yours personally to make.
Decisions about roads and bridges and armies have to be consented to as a group.

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True enough.
I'm not defending welfare or socialism.
I'm just saying it's box-of-rocks dumb to call either "theft".
If everything is theft, the word loses its meaning.

So just because everyone else says it's ok that makes it not theft? Lol, please. Further, about half the people didn't send those "representatives", again, just because the mob says it's ok that makes it not theft? Laughable.

Which "half" are you talking about?
The "half" that voted for another candidate, or the "half" that stayed home?
The other candidate would also have consented to taxes. Different ones, lower ones, sure, but there would still be taxes.
And the people who stayed home were essentially saying "either candidate is fine by me."
Odd how people never seem to assert that "taxation is theft" at the ballot box...

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