Myths/taxation is theft - Revision history

Woozle: /* Reality */ actual theft

2017-07-02T10:02:16Z

Reality: actual theft

2016-08-09T13:47:30Z

a more complete argument for the claim

2015-07-19T15:54:59Z

a category

2015-07-11T17:32:18Z

second occurrence

2015-07-11T17:18:53Z

origins, Google Ngram

2015-06-09T15:08:40Z

discussion

2015-06-09T14:55:46Z

Flacek -> Flaeck

2015-06-09T14:52:51Z

if taxation is theft, then...

2015-06-09T14:46:32Z

Woozle moved page CWRE:Myths/taxation is theft to Myths/taxation is theft without leaving a redirect: take two...

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 Greatest. Invention. Ever.
 </blockquote>
 ==Discussion==
 * [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/bpjFn8UHwaZ 2013-03-17] would anti-taxers argue for the selective removal of state protection from excess property

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 ===Examples===
 [[File:2015-07-11 Google NGram for taxation is theft.png|thumb|300px|The Google Ngram for the phrase "taxation is theft" shows the phrase first appearing in 1961. (There really are [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=taxation+is+theft&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctaxation%20is%20theft%3B%2Cc0 no known uses before that].)]]
 * '''2015-03-09''', comment on [https://plus.google.com/u/0/113630203692968581887/posts/NCUrbxWQGnN Google+]: "Taxation is legalized theft no matter how you try to rationalize it."
 ===Origins===

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 ===Origins===
 A Google Ngram search shows the phrase first surfacing in 1962, in the journal ''Political Science Review'' volume 1, published by the Department of Political Science at the {{l/wp|University of Rajasthan}} (India): "...therefore, that the tax-payer today feels that ''taxation is theft'', even when he is convinced that taxation forms only a normal activity of all governments. However, ''extravagance in a spending spree and taxation'' go together." (The remainder of the context for this conclusion is not currently available online due to copyright restrictions.)
 ==Reality==
 If taxation is theft, then theft must go something [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/WiJdkbzypFH like this]:

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 ==Myth==
 ===Examples===
 * '''2015-03-09''', comment on [https://plus.google.com/u/0/113630203692968581887/posts/NCUrbxWQGnN Google+]: "Taxation is legalized theft no matter how you try to rationalize it."
 ==Reality==
 If taxation is theft, then theft must go something [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/WiJdkbzypFH like this]:

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	Greatest. Invention. Ever.		Greatest. Invention. Ever.
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		+	==Discussion==
		+	* [https://plus.google.com/102282887764745350285/posts/bpjFn8UHwaZ 2013-03-17] would anti-taxers argue for the selective removal of state protection from excess property
		+	* [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/VXKPHUZtcbX 2013-04-07]
		+	* [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/iNRDWBco9XF 2014-04-12]
		+	* [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SteveSIsBack/posts/e6Fu5yzW9ZJ 2015-06-05]
		+	* Try also searching G+: [https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/taxation_is_theft taxation is theft]

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 * The thief uses what they have stolen to provide a number of vital public services.
-Taxation is actually the best solution so far found to the problem of funding social infrastructure. Steven Flacek probably [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+StevenFlaeck/posts/BGgraZg5z9j explains it] best:
+Taxation is actually the best solution so far found to the problem of funding social infrastructure. Steven Flaeck probably [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+StevenFlaeck/posts/BGgraZg5z9j explains it] best:
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 Taxes are a really awesome invention, probably the best ever.

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