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>I’m not one of those “taxation is theft" but I think a wealth tax is theft

This comes across as wealth apologism. If a wealth tax is theft through a monopoly on violence, then all tax is theft through a monopoly on violence.

Singularly applying this concept as a the negative of a wealth tax, while ignoring the rest of taxes, is biased towards the wealthy.



Your mistake is assuming that taking property through the threat of violence is theft. That’s incorrect. Theft is an illegal taking of property. Taxes are a legal taking of property. But collection of the wealth tax, like all taxes, is premised on the threat of violence. It’s legal violence towards a legal end, and therefore justified, but it’s still violence.




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