Ever Giving Consent

I thought about it today, I don't remember ever agreeing to the social contract where the government is allowed to take my property.

I'm bringing this up because someone told me this today, taxation was the social contract I agreed to when I was born, and if I don't like it I should just move. Well none of us decided to be born and not anyone alive decided to agree to this imaginary social contract. What really blew my mind was that people honestly believe that taxation is morally just.

The government will lock you up if you go to someone's house and take their money, but when they do it this is somehow perfectly fine. Just think about it for a second, now imagining trying to explain this to say an alien. They would look at you and laugh, what's worse is that your great great grand father or grand mother would do the exact same thing. There was no income tax 70 years ago, so how did they have road to drive on?

---

"Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity." - Arthur Laffer

---

The government can cover most things like the upkeep of basic roads and services, like the police with just value added tax, but that the problem with greed, you always want more. They come appealing to the emotions of the masses to then rob them blind. I'm mostly referring to my own country, but it applies to all, the more expenses government can add the more can be filtered into there pockets.

---

"If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. 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

---

You're either laughing or you're learning.

Join me tomorrow for more lessons on these really easy to understand concepts.

Thanks for popping in, hope you liked the post. Please leave me your thoughts and or opinions in the comments below, have a beautiful day.

• For the best posts on food and all things beautiful follow my @princessmewmew

• For those who love the the open road and the road less traveled follow @velimir
• The reason I joined this platform was thanks to one guy, the infamous @jeffberwick
• One of the first blogs I ever read when I joined steemit, great content @gavvet
• If you love a good laugh and all things Star Wars follow @thedarksideshow

Proudly powered by ADSactly - click this image above to join our discord server - Make sure to visit our ADSactly Society Steemit blog

Vote @adsactly-witness for your witnesses here.

✯ ✯ ✯

✯ Follow me for more fun ✯