This may be somewhat off-topic, but I just want some answers for this question cause I don't really know what to say about it or have any opinions on it.
Is taxation theft?
Thomas Young
Matthew Richardson
I don’t see how it’s a meaningful question. It’s just moralizing.
Asher Gonzalez
yes of course, men put nails into wood and pave driveways and taxes on that work pay for trump's golf trips
Justin Sullivan
Imho, they aren't however they aren't good either. Taxes to fund welfare are merely a band-aid over the massive wound capitalism has caused. They're also inefficient and should be abolished asap when socialism is established, they won't be necessary there. Until then, they're pretty much a necessary evil.
Charles Morris
At its most fundamental, no. Economic activity can't function without a central administrative authority to oversee it (in the case of class society, this is the state), and the state cannot run without taxes to fund it. The moralizing around "muh taxes is thefd" is because property holders see this as an affront to their authority, no such anxiety exists about rents and fees which are effectively the same thing, but imposed primarily on the unpropertied by the propertied.
Caleb Jones
but this isn't true
Joshua Peterson
Taxation is murder actually, so long as they keep buying predator missiles and the like.
Jayden Martinez
Advanced economic activity. Marx and Engels already demonstrated this.
Christian Martin
Marx and Engels never demonstrated that a state is necessary. They just critiqued capitalism as it was in their day which included a state
Jeremiah Wood
The rise of the state and class society is invariably linked to more advanced productive forces. Even in communism you would still need a central administrative authority to help manage economic activity.