“The power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.” He was right – entire civilizations have risen and fallen based on tax rates, and unthinkable economic damage has been wreaked by the wrecking ball called taxation: endless waves of recessions, supply-chain crises, and most notably the Great Depression, the most deadly economic disaster in modern history. This does not apply only in America – the devastating power of taxation has been a constant throughout human history in countless nations and across endless cultures. Both America and the rest of the world have been taught this painful lesson the hard way, over and over again, leaving one burning question – when will we finally learn? How many stock market crashes, financial panics, famines, recessions, and depressions will it take to hammer into the thick skulls of our elected officials that something needs to change? Human nature being what is, perhaps we’ll never know.
But why, exactly, is taxation so destructive? For starters, it’s morally wrong. Say you started a charity that wanted to donate to an art museum, or build better roads, or even donate to the poor – it doesn’t really matter what your charity wants to do. But say you start one and don’t get enough voluntary donations. Instead, you aim a gun at some millionaire’s head and demand a donation or you will punish him. He might hand over the cash, but still, that doesn’t make you a generous person, that makes you a thief. You will be held criminally liable for armed theft; or at least, you ought to be. Again, it doesn’t matter if you were well-intentioned, it doesn’t matter if you were doing something beneficial to the community with the proceeds, you are firstly and lastly a thief. Now comes the part that’s painful for most people. If this principle applies to you as a human being, why wouldn’t it apply to the government? Why doesn’t the same thing hold true to a government that demands a third of your income and well send armed bureaucrats to your house and shackle you in a jail if you refuse? We might be uncomfortable with admitting it, but nothing has changed. The throbbing, agonizing, tear-jerking truth is that taxation is nothing but glorified theft.
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