Debate: Taxation is Legalized Theft
Side: No

shied away from our last debate What are you talking about? Who are you?Just because I wont shoot you in the kneecap so long as you give me $20 doesn't mean I've given you a well working leg to stand on. ;)You're comparison makes no sense. You have many things because of taxes, from roads to a military - none of which you could afford on your own, so you are actually getting more than you paid for.And because our taxes pay for police, people are hardly ever being shot in the knee cap. Without government in fact, you are far more likely to be shot in the kneecap. This analogy doesn't make sense.Well, no corrections to make here. You clearly have the understanding on the topic of thievery as an elementary school student has on his classroom presentation of M-theory.A government cannot stand on force alone. It needs the majority of the people living in the area it claims to believe in its own righteousness or the country becomes impossible to control. The only way to do this is to convince the population that they gain more from paying the mandatory ransoms then they would get by just spending the money directly on what they want to spend it on.Ignoring your insults or attempts at humor or whatever that is, again, you do get more than what you pay for from government. There's like 12 billionaires in the country who could actually afford all of what government offers. Like really? You think you can hire your own personal guard, and pave the roads too and from your home and hire someone to test all your food so you are not poisoned with the money you would save by not paying taxes? I assure you you could not.So, they throw just enough spare change at us to stop us from marching violently through the streets or worse, turn to some other government.With all of your gun and protest analogies, I'm guessing you're a crazy extremist tea party type. I hate to break it to you, you are the minority. No one is ready, or even close to ready, to "march violently through the streets."Once this oil is cleaned from the coast, and at this rate the job situation will be back to normal in a couple of years, even Faux is going to have to find a new camera baby other than these confused old couch potatoes. This rise of government mistrust and hatred you seem to imagine does not exist but in the 10-15% of crazies it has always existed in.Well with that logic I could rob a child of his lolly-pop and claim it's not technically theft so long as the kid cries about it. =/... that's not the logic at all. The logic is that a certain group of people just like to cry a lot. No matter what happens, they are a cosmic victim. They consistently fail to see the good government does, instead only focusing on these perceived evils. They never stop to think what would really happen if the government ceased to be funded, they fail to see how easily tyrants and criminals could gain power if we stopped funding government, they fail to see that they themselves have just as much a say in the government as anyone else. They are too busy crying to see it.What makes taxation theft is that it's a mandatory payment punishable by death and/or imprisonment.You have a habit of exaggerating to a ridiculous extent in order to back up your unsupported views. No one is ever killed for not paying taxes. And of course one should be imprisoned for not paying taxes, it is not fair that an individual get all the protections of the US, are appointed an attorney by the US against the US when they do go to court, that they get to drive on roads the US paid for, and eat food the US checked first, and not pay their fair share to the US.It is no different than eating in a restaurant then skipping out on the bill.