Roll back Reagan tax cuts.

[Mr Khan]

Marks said:

Mr Khan said:

Because taxes aren't theft. It's a simple, categorical thing.

What do you even mean by that? 

Taxes are by definition theft:

 

theft

   [theft]  Show IPA

noun

1.

the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away ofthe personal goods or property of another; larceny.

The only part of that definition you could argue taxes don't fit in with is the word "wrongful". But when my tax dollars go to some stupid program that I don't support and is basically a waste of money, I do consider it wrongful. Foreign Aid and "Nation Building" drive me the most insane because they are millions of tax dollars that are leaving the country and we will never see again. 

 

But "wrongful" is not up to personal opinion. Never has been. To state otherwise annihilates millennia of discourse on ethics, or reverts us to relativism (and relativism is the "Godwin's Law" of ethics debates, so we must avoid it at all costs).

Unless we could successfully build an argument that the social contract itself is flawed, or that there is a point upon which the government is deemed to be no longer legitimate on the whole, and then all of their actions from authority become "wrong." But a government which is legitimate, applying its power and excercising its need to collect funds to accomplish such cannot be "wrong."

Wrongness could also come into play if the government had an amoral means by which to collect taxes, but taxes cannot be amoral so long as the government is legitimate.