/u/Vineee2000 on Is taxation theft?

That seems like a weirdly binary distinction to me, though. You mention roads as one example of not theft, but appropriation, and welfare as theft. But what about a road, built in a completely different end of the country from where you live? Or what about welfare payments given to the poor people in your area, that mean less of them turn to crime, with you benefitting from the reduced crime rate? Is the former still appropriation spent on your behalf? Is the latter still theft? Or what if you paid taxes towards welfare while you were rich, but then went bankrupt, and benefited from the very welfare scheme your taxes funded earlier? Is that theft?

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