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| "Taxation is theft" is perhaps more common, but specifically it's more like extortion: the state sends you a bill (or automatically takes it), and threatens harm if you don't pay. | If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. —Lysander Spooner |
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| See also: [[http://freedomain.blogspot.com/2006/11/gun-in-room.html|The Gun in the Room]]. | "Taxation is theft" is perhaps more common, but specifically it's more like extortion: the state sends you a bill (or automatically takes it), and threatens harm if you don't pay. When the mob does this—even if they say they're providing "protection"—we call it extortion. Related: NoSpecialPleadingForTheState. See also: [[https://www.facebook.com/notes/government-is-bad/taxation-is-necessarily-theft-it-can-be-nothing-else/296806017004131|Taxation is necessarily theft. It can be nothing else.]], [[http://freedomain.blogspot.com/2006/11/gun-in-room.html|The Gun in the Room]]. |
If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. —Lysander Spooner
"Taxation is theft" is perhaps more common, but specifically it's more like extortion: the state sends you a bill (or automatically takes it), and threatens harm if you don't pay. When the mob does this—even if they say they're providing "protection"—we call it extortion.
Related: NoSpecialPleadingForTheState.
See also: Taxation is necessarily theft. It can be nothing else., The Gun in the Room.