Taxes are an insult (and robbery)

Who is Best Qualified to Decide how How Your Wealth Should be Used?

asks Tibor Machan

I have noted before that my fellow citizens and I are the best wealth redistributors one can find. We know quite well, with only rare exceptions, where the wealth we obtained should go – how we should spend or invest or save our earnings, etc.

But vast numbers of political thinkers and players disagree.  They hold that our resources must be taken from us and they, not we, should be the ones who decide what to do with them.  Why?  Who are these folks to butt in and remove us from the driver’s seat and place themselves and their chosen few in there instead?

As Joseph Schumpeter remarks in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: “… the state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory which construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.”

Full post here

I believe he hits the right note but forgets about the orchestra. This is addressed in the comments section:

Dwain Dibley:
November 26, 2015 at 16:42

A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument or syllogism. Since the premise (proposition, or assumption) is not correct, the conclusion drawn may be in error. However, the logical validity of an argument is a function of its internal consistency, not the truth value of its premises.

In this case, the argument is based upon inflammatory rhetoric and emotionalism, devoid of any contextual reference, it is not a logical argument. It’s just blame shifting. Government is not an entity unto itself, it did not spring into existence of its own accord, WE created government and WE are responsible for its conduct.