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The last time I checked anyone who does not pay their taxes has their paychecks garnished, or a lein put on their homes, or the sheriff comes and arrests them. If that is not unwilling I don't know what is.Now if the gov said: "Send us whatever you want to send in" like my church does, then that would be voluntary.Now I admit that my use of the word "stolen" is hyperbole but the unwilling confiscation of wealth at gunpoint committed by a mugger is not all that different from the unwilling confiscation of wealth at gunpoint committed by the gov. I also admit that taxes need to happen. We just have to start with the understanding that many of our founders started with that taxes are inherently immoral and the least taxation is best.Why, the tea tax in the 1700's was more voluntary than taxes today since one could choose to drink coffee. It was also only 3 cents on the pound, a small amount even then. And while we would love to think that the Sons of Liberty were a wholly honorable bunch (they never tarred and feathered anyone, or threw rocks at soldiers, or dumped tea) and they only objected for the most noble reasons it would also be true that just about any tax would have been rejected even with representation. America had simply gone 150 years with no taxes paid to the king then suddenly go a heap lumped on them.
The last time I checked anyone who does not pay their taxes has their paychecks garnished, or a lein put on their homes, or the sheriff comes and arrests them. If that is not unwilling I don't know what is.
Now if the gov said: "Send us whatever you want to send in" like my church does, then that would be voluntary.
Now I admit that my use of the word "stolen" is hyperbole but the unwilling confiscation of wealth at gunpoint committed by a mugger is not all that different from the unwilling confiscation of wealth at gunpoint committed by the gov. I also admit that taxes need to happen. We just have to start with the understanding that many of our founders started with that taxes are inherently immoral and the least taxation is best.
Why, the tea tax in the 1700's was more voluntary than taxes today since one could choose to drink coffee. It was also only 3 cents on the pound, a small amount even then. And while we would love to think that the Sons of Liberty were a wholly honorable bunch (they never tarred and feathered anyone, or threw rocks at soldiers, or dumped tea) and they only objected for the most noble reasons it would also be true that just about any tax would have been rejected even with representation. America had simply gone 150 years with no taxes paid to the king then suddenly go a heap lumped on them.
