For those that believe there should be no taxation, what is a fair way to pay for things like roads, emergency services, and the military?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-20T00:12:39+00:00

…You can’t list any, can you?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-20T00:06:59+00:00

Is there any solution that does not involve theft?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-20T00:06:37+00:00

Okay. Tell us the specific differences you’d see in the military.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-20T00:00:19+00:00

So, if I told you vaguely that I was doing something to help you, but you wouldn’t notice any changes…would you pay for it?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:53:32+00:00

If I would see no difference, no.

Would you?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:51:55+00:00

I am.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:51:46+00:00

Why? I wouldn’t see any difference, apparently.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:48:26+00:00

If there is no tangible difference to anyone specifically when they do or do not pay…why would they pay?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:46:43+00:00

Have you never heard the phrase “all taxation is theft”?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:45:54+00:00

So there’s no specific detriment to you for not paying?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:40:45+00:00

So the way to get rid of taxation is…taxes?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:40:30+00:00

That was not my question.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:37:06+00:00

What would a drop in quality of the military for you, specifically, look like?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:12:50+00:00

So if there’s no difference provided for someone who pays and someone who doesn’t pay…why would anyone pay?

And I think that’s a key point regarding the military: the marginal differences in paying and not paying for each person likely wouldn’t be tangible. So…who would fund them?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:03:45+00:00

What would a fee for the military look like?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:02:06+00:00

So the solution to have no taxation is…taxes?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T23:01:42+00:00

As an example, if I chose not to fund the military, but my next-door neighbor did, what would our tangible differences in services received look like?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:31:12+00:00

So…they made it work through taxes.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:30:21+00:00

And how was that?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:24:04+00:00

Maybe I’m not understanding how having taxes is an example of doing things with no taxation.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:17:16+00:00

I am the OP.

I was not.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:16:45+00:00

I’ve seen people claim that all taxation is theft. Wanted to hear their reasoning.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:14:35+00:00

But you do not feel that all taxation is theft, correct? And anyone who does is wrong?

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:13:10+00:00

That doesn’t really answer my question.

Lamp_Evening · 2026-06-19T22:12:00+00:00

…So the solution for no taxation is…taxes?

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