Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

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So is water wet?

By the way, if your whole taxation is theft argument centers around the fact that you don't consent to it, what about those of us that do?

Good for you?

No I'm asking you a philosophical question, you like this stuff. Is it still theft for all of us? is it theft for you and not me? hows that play out?

Water isn't wet. It makes things wet.

Note theft includes the intent to deprive someone of something. You aren't deprived if you willingly relinquish it.

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I said it in the WatchMMe groupme chat, but if we want to talk about theft IMO the real government theft is "eminent domain"

As a landowner of a decent amount of property in one of the hottest markets in the nation, this is a legitimate concern for me.  There is very little recourse if I move into one of the houses on our farm or build our dream home there and our property is suddenly in the crosshairs for some proposed toll road or government property.

My wife's family's entire ancestral farm in West Virginia got snatched away from them because the state decided to build a new high school there.  One of her uncles literally chained himself to the front porch of their farmhouse for a week.  The sheriffs finally showed up, forcibly removed him and they bulldozed the house.  Yeah they got "compensated" for it but aside from losing their family home they also had to give up their mineral rights on the property which, for better or for worse, can be worth millions in residual income for a surprising number of people up in that part of the state.

http://mynorthwest.com/1080203/dori-show...precedent/

Right now, you can’t touch the buildings inside this Pike Place Market Historic District, but the Showbox sits a little outside of it. So the Seattle City Council has arbitrarily said, “OK, let’s go zik-zak-zik, and draw a new boundary so that suddenly the Showbox is in the historic district.’ It is the government taking someone’s private property.