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The following is a 8 message exchange between 4 users

 @ISIDEWITHasked…5mos5MO

How would you prioritize your time and energy if all jobs had the same societal value and compensation?

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington answered…4mos4MO

Organising a revolt against the regime of legal plunder that made possible such a nightmare

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…4mos4MO

But if it worked, if the government remained in the hands of the people and it was OUR apparatus, where poverty actually decreased, would you revolt then?

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

Yes, revolt against any government that directly taxes its citizens for whatever reason is justified because it's immoral legalised plunder.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…4mos4MO

The government is literally the creator and manager of the market that gave you the money in the first place. You never had a full legal or moral right to pre-taxes income, because you did not create that, that was the reward from the market, the market created by the government, which can not exist without the government either. Anarcho-capitalism literally doesn’t exist, not at a national level such as this, it is merely a reduced government pseudo-laissez faire system, which we have PROVEN doesn’t work, hence the industrial revolution’s atrocities and lack of fair treatme…  Read more

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

I'm not an Anarcho-Capitalist, I still believe the state is a necessary abomination that we must have to provide a police, courts, and a military to secure our preexisting God-given rights. I never claimed I had a legal right to pre-taxes income, I am saying I have a NATURAL RIGHT to WHAT I HAVE EARNED BY THE SWEAT OF MY BROW WHICH IS CALLED PRIVATE PROPERTY. It wasn't granted by government, it was given to all human beings from the point of conception by God in all ages, and is a product of my humanity that government cannot regulate or abridge. Government is not above the law, NO ONE IS.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…4mos4MO

And yet you have considered taxation to be theft, which quite literally counters your own stated belief that you don’t have a right to pre-tax income, thereby denying your own recent claim. As to your claim about private property, it’s important to state what you believe private property IS whether it be personal property such as land, houses, or cars, or the Marxian definition of private property, often relating to land used to create economic value or a company/business built to create value.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

Just because I know taxation is theft doesn't make me an anarchy-capitalist, I still would support indirect excises on whiskey, tobacco, etc, and tariffs to fund the limited functions of our theoretical night-watchman government.