TAXATION IS THEFT Cotton Bag

Imagine a system where someone takes a portion of your earnings under threat of penalty, redistributes it according to rules you didn’t personally agree to, and calls it a social contract. If an individual did that, we’d call it theft; when an institution does it, we call it taxation. The philosophical tension comes from consent: if consent is the moral line between voluntary exchange and coercion, then taxation sits in an awkward gray area—one where the “agreement” is assumed rather than explicitly given. So the joke writes itself: it’s not theft, it’s just theft with better branding.

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