shades--come on---first, the "taking your stuff for the common good" as a way of understanding taxation in general and the problems with the bush tax cut in particular is straight limbaughland--doesnt matter if you listen to him or just mime the discourse, the source is the same. as a way of thinking about what taxation is, it gets you precisely nowhere. it give you no way of thinking about why taxation was developed in its modern form, what the problems/conflicts that drove it might have been. take some responsability for your terminology.
if you do not agree with it, dont use it.
fact is that profit would not be extractable without a minimal degree of socail stability. the redistribution of wealth is fundamental to that stability. anyone who has read **any** history of capitalism in the empirical world would understand this.
that you do not like taxes is fine--but it is not a coherent view of what taxation does.
and i could not care less how you vote.
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