St. Paul and I Agree...
Taxation is not theft: "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves." -- Romans 13 The key idea implicit here, and the one that turned me on the subject of whether or not taxation is theft, is that "every soul" owes obedience to the "governing authorities." Now, if that is a debt I truly owe , then, when those authorities levy the taxes they need to do the job of governing, I owe them those taxes, and attempts to collect them certainly do not constitute acts of theft. And obviously it doesn't matter at all, from this point of view, whether or not I "signed" any sort of "social contract." (In fact, the history of political thought since the Reformation can be read as an attempt to find a secular rep...
He's probably mad because that statist fellow locked him in a cage.
ReplyDeleteIt's more likely to be a private cage.
DeleteYou guys aren't against locking people in cages, right? So long as it's a private cage.
But hey I guess it sounds better if you make it sound like you're against locking people in cages... even though you're not really.
Which one is the ancap ?
ReplyDeleteI win the bet Gene, he couldn't tell!
DeleteI guess you get to chose the rules for the next bet then.
DeleteI'm thinking it's the goat given that it's "arguing" is garbled and incoherent, but it could just as easily be the man if we interpret him as belaboring the goat's point and the goat as Gene yelling at him in frustration.
DeleteQuoting and modifying the great Sam Axe for my own purposes: "You know anarchists, a bunch of bitchy little girls.".
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, can you us which one is the anarcho-capitalist?
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