Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays

DudleyMason@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Taxes themselves are not theft, but the misuse of those taxes (such as waging purposeless war, refurbishing your gifted airplane emoluments, funneling money to a family member’s private business, putting public money into crypto scams, or vandalizing public monuments) is a kind of theft.

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  • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s embezzlement from the treasury, which is different than pretending that taxes going into the Treasury is theft.

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• Binette@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think they were talking about taxes, unless I’m mistaken. It’s obviously about wage theft, right?

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• MrChewy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Arguably, both the red and yellow can be theft at the same time

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  • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But in reality, community expenses don’t pay themselves and only whiny lolbertarian babies think that taxes to pay for those things is theft, so it is “arguable”, but making the argument says more about you than about taxes.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, one could argue that. One could also argue the world is flat. Arguing is easy.

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