When I reached "Taxation is theft!" I was moved to come here and comment on it. It only took about a second for me to stop myself and laugh. Apparently others here weren't quite so levelheaded.
I'm not sure what your comment is trying to imply, but this is also where I stopped reading.
"Taxation keeps the first disadvantage, but arguably subverts the second disadvantage if you believe being able to fund a government has greater social value than leaving money in the hands of those who earned it."
Using this argument, at least with the US Government, taxation is most certainly theft.
Yeah, my comment was a lot clearer in my head. I meant that I was about to launch into a minirant about fair taxation in the US. I did a double take and realized that I had hit an emotional trigger very similar to the kind the article is calling out. I think it's very valuable to examine our emotional attachments to words, and I think that's the best thing to take away from the article.
