Accepting Stolen Goods Is Suppose To Be A Crime

Without taxation there would be anarchy. No funds for police, firefighters, roads, streetlights, welfare, safety controls in industries, public transport etc.. Taxation is not the best thing in the world but it is surely better than the alternative. Choose the lesser evil! I also believe that since public services are potentially available to everyone, you pay for the chance to use them, wheter you use them or not, so it is a sort of forced transation but that is not theft. You would really like to live without any kind of free public service? You would reallty prefer to have to pay the police if they have to find your stolen car? Or the fightfighters if they have to take you out of flaming house? Or some local militia to defend you if some other country decides to conquer your land?

Would you like to tell that to my husband who is a disabled Viet Nam vet? Nice theory about income tax being theft but you fill out a form when you start a new job giving your consent to pay taxes.

It is the duty of each citizen, I believe to pay income tax. That's why our payslips have lots of deductions. Some are done annually like in my place. It pays for the basic services including street lighting, road maintenance and even firefighters and police services. I wouldn't want my kids to walk on dark streets, neither will I drive my car in a street full of holes. I don't agree that it is a form of theft. Though, where I am, there are taxes that are plain highway robbery like road users tax, too much value added tax etc. but as to income tax, I am happy to pay. enjoy!

Gewcew23 you are right it is theft if they forced us to pay this tax but we have a choice. Says so right there in the tax book as well as on the w2 forms we fill out to work for any business. The tax was meant to be paid by businesses and then only if they were in profit. It was to support the war. It was never meant to be from wages earned from an honest days work. The worst part is none of this tax goes to our government but to the owners of the Federal Reserve Banks which is not a part of our government. Our president has to borrow money from the Federal Reserve Banks to run this country then pay it back with interest, otherwise we wouldn't have a deficit... NO the people who receive government services are NOT getting the service with stolen money, nor receiving stolen goods, they receive services paid for from borrowed money. Those who pay this tax had to agree to give it to the privately owned Federal Reserve Banks, they volunteered to give away a percentage of their wages, otherwise it would be illegal for them to take it.

I guess you could look at it that way. I think it is ridiculous that we get taxed on so many things that we own. They want a piece of everything you have and if you have a pennt, they want half of it.

That is an interesting point of view. I'm not a fan of income tax either, but I had never viewed it from that perpective.