How do you benefit from paying for the US army killing people in a country you'll probably never visit?

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The cold reality is we are all slaves - taxes PROVE this.

At what percentage of your labor forcefully take AT GUNPOINT are you not a slave?

Do you have a response to any of the points I laid out?

Taxes are extortion. Pure and simple. If you don’t pay you go to jail.

Statism is the most dangerous religion humans practice.

Every single law is a potential death sentence to someone out there.

The free market would provide everything one is extorted for better faster and cheaper.

extortion:

noun

Illegal use of one's official position or powers to obtain property, funds, or patronage.

That’s the definition of extortion. I think taxes fail to meet this definition, because you get something in return for them. The rest of what you said isn’t an argument. It’s just your feelings.

You should change your avatar, you are not living up to Chad. Sorry.

Name-calling is an Ad Hominem type of Red Herring logical fallacy, and is not a valid argument. Dude, like I’m right-wing as fuck, and I’m a bitcoin maxi. Get better arguments. Stay humble. Stay open minded. Think critically. Question things. I’m still letting you try to convince me otherwise, so far you just haven’t given me a good argument I can’t refute in 0.2 seconds.

“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. 'Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??' 'Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??' And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.”

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Sure, you can debate the way in which taxes are collected and I encourage you to do so; that is perfectly valid…property tax, income tax, consumer tax, etc…. But that’s not the root of the argument though. The root of the argument is whether they should exist. And they should. You have failed to demonstrate why they should not.

Taxes are you paying for goods and services provided by the government to the benefit of everyone. It is an exchange. An exchange is not theft. An exchange is not slavery. Did slave masters pay their slaves? Yes, sometimes, but mostly no. But the difference is, you couldn’t vote for a different slave master, and you couldn’t negotiate with your slave master on the terms of the exchange. Taxation, therefore, is not slavery. But I am willing to be challenged on this and end up wrong! I have an open mind and am but a poor pleb who stays humble and stacks bitcoin.

LOL. You need to look harder at the human farm you live on.

This is not an argument against what I said. Like I said, I’m willing to have my mind changed! You just have to actually present me with ideas that make sense lol. So far you have failed to do so. Are you not being open minded? Are you not willing to change your mind and have your beliefs challenged? I am.

You work from January 1 until sometime in April to pay the government off and stay out of jail. If that is not slavery I do not know what is.

Sure, you can debate how much tax you pay, and I encourage you to do so. And you can debate whether the goods and services you are receiving are worth what you are paying, and I encourage you to do so. But that’s not an argument against taxes.

Why can't I save images in primal? needs to be fixed, these memes need saving!

I’m not on primal, but can you just screenshot it?

Yeah, using phones full screen screenshot function. strange that we can't click to enlarge or long press to save.

It’s great to criticize that, and you should, but it’s not a case against taxes. A government could collect taxes to build a standing army for the purposes of national defense and border protection to the benefit of all of the citizens of the nation, and could do so without committing war crimes. What would be the alternative method for raising a standing army?

Again, if the army is necessary, people will support and even join it voluntarily.

Not really. Someone could simply choose to not pay for the standing army and still reap the benefits of being protected. People would be incentivized to do this, and we, as bitcoiners, know that people follow incentives.

The sane is happening right now. People who don't pay taxes benefit from being protected.

The incentive is clear, to live in peace. Paying taxes do not guarante that.

Also, the army has to exist before it is necessary.