re: Is taxation theft?

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I agree with Vols-taxes should be consumption based, not income based.

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Why are consumption based taxes not theft but income based taxes are?

You might consider one to be fairer than the other but it's still a taking of your money.

Unless you use barter and/or are able to self produce everything you need without buying anything from anyone else ever.

Personally, I think taxes are necessary if we agree that government is necessary. If the government is necessary then we must have taxes to fund it. We won't all agree on what the government should spend money on but whatever the *majority* agrees the government should do needs to be funded. And today the fundamental problem we have is that the majority of us believe the government should do x, y and z but aren't willing to pay the full bill to provide x, y and z.

So, are taxes theft? At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. What matters is we keep running up the tab and have too many jackasses doing the old dine and dash.

The older I get, the less ideological I get. Not just with politics. It's a matter of finances. I don't care what we spend money on so long as we agree on how to pay for it.