re: #138 EPR-radar

The IRS collects taxes according to laws passed by Congress. What part of this is slavery?

I mean, I know wingnuts have to be stupid because that’s their job, but really?

It all goes back to the idea that taxation is theft, and taxation of income is theft of labor. It’s bullshit, mostly because it fails to recognize that without taxation and the state, there is no ability to form a contract, and those with more power/resources/followers can simply take your labor.

The glibertarian movement likes to think that all problems come from government. They completely miss Hamilton’s points about ordered liberty and the absence of government not being liberty but instead license, or what we’d call anarchy. They’re the sorts that read Locke and thought “yeah, that makes sense” and never bothered to read Hobbes… or to realize the answer is probably somewhere between the two points.