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Then you have no problem with non-government thieves.
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Should we disband the military too because taxes is theft?
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I would say yes, but that's just me.
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If a meteor was coming to earth and we had to shoot it out of the sky, and it cost $500 billion to do so, and if it falls everyone dies (just a purely theoretical scenario) what do you tax-is-theft guys do? Get people to contribute to a charity? You know of the free rider problem don't you? No one will contribute because everyone benefits from everyone else's contribution.
I'm really curious what you tax-is-theft people would advocate doing in the above scenario!
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Free-rider situations exist all the time. No one lives in a vacuum.
In the extreme example above, I'm sure that some people would be willing to contribute to divert the meteor, despite the fact that some may well not contribute. I consider it fallacious that, just because not everyone may put in his "fair share", no one will be concerned enough to do something on his own.
- Rob