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Is there really any difference between Taxation and Plunder?

Or between Mafia style extortion and government taxation?

Update:

@Brian

Taxation is the exertion of power by force, for those who refuse to pay the taxation and punished either by fines or jail time. That is an initiation of force against he populous.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes. We get to vote for the guys that impose taxes.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Taxation comes with the consent of the Governed. Plunder takes no consideration of the will of the Governed, and instead exherts power by force.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    There's a big difference.

    Taxation is used to provide services for the population: military, police, and fire protection; education; social services; clean streets; sewage systems; clean water; health departments; roadway creation and maintenance; legal and penal systems; etc.

    Or did you think that stuff just happens by magic or that the people who provide those services do it out of the goodness of their hearts?

    Sure there's waste and abuse, but how long do you think this nation would remain a nation without taxation?

  • 9 years ago

    Not in Chicago. Or any other blue state and city. Then it truly is gangsterism. http://www.google.com/imgres?start=135&hl=en&clien...

    The red states it is simply stealing. Beagle Boys style. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Beag... Ineptly

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Better organized.

  • Is this how creeps like you and Romney justify not paying your taxes and leaving everyone else to pay for you?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It doesn't matter how much you tax liberals will just want more.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    If you don't want to pay your taxes, leave America. You are a leech.

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