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I'm referring to the taxes specifically where government takes money from one citizen and gives it to another. I'm not an anarchist, I'm a small government libertarian. Things like roads, the police, the military are legitimate functions of government. Government taking money from one citizen and giving it to another is no difference than someone taking your wallet on the street at gunpoint. Then it's armed robbery. And no, there was none of that in the Constitution
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization....Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization provides us cities, roads, sewers, clean water, education, healthcare....the things we need to survive as a culture
Anarchists refuse to pay for that.......which is why Anarchists are Assholes (see post #90)
There is nothing civilized about any government plundering one citizen to give money to another. I realize you're stupid and all, but I am a small government libertarian, not an anarchist. I support roads, sewers, clean water and a lot of other things small government's do.
I stop short though of government committing armed robbery to redistribute wealth, it's no different when government redistributes wealth or a thug with a gun on the street does
All government expenditures help one group more than another. What libertarians don't understand is that the benefits paid to poor people pale in comparisons to those provided the rich
Poor person: Look, I got a free phone......Libertarians outraged
Rich person: Look, I got a jet airplane and wrote it off as a business expense.....Libertarians celebrate his success
Libertarians are far worse then this! They want to drive on our roads, call the police and enjoy the benefits of living in a first world society, but want to bitch about paying for it. They're not serious people.
That is why no society on earth adopts a libertarian model. Because the resulting product is not a society, it is anarchy with every man for himself
Wrong. The real reason is that every society if full of envious ingrates like you who are willing to destroy all of society if that's what it takes to bring down the wealthy people they hate.