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[CaptainHenreh]

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Just because a percentage of your tax dollars are spent on things you don't agree with doesn't negate the importance of the fundamental concept of paying taxes. I don't understand the productivity of your argument when you admit the necessity of them right there. Instead of asserting a demonstrably false claim like "taxation is theft" that is going to set people on edge, why not start with your actual point of "Hey, maybe it would be cool if our country didn't waste a fuckload of money on warmongering and spent it on its citizens instead"

"I just believe that by thinking of it as, say "State Sanctioned Larceny", maybe people wouldn't be so fucking gung-ho about spending other people's money." - Me. 

It is funds taken without my consent, on threat of violence. If one person does that, it's theft. If 10 people do it, theft. If 100 people do it, theft. If 1 million people do it...Tax? Explain to me how that isn't theft, since it's as you say, demonstrably false. I can recognize that some benefit comes from said theft while still maintaining the theft itself is immoral without any contradiction. If I steal your wallet and buy you a sandwhich and give the rest to charity I still stole from you. It might be the tastiest sandwhich you ever had and my donation might have kept a family alive through the winter but I still stole from you. Why is it different when 1,000,000 people do the exact same thing?