by John Hospers Hospers offer three versions of the central thesis: No one is anyone else’s master, and no one is anyone else’s slave. Other people’s lives are not yours to dispose of. No human being should be a nonvoluntary mortgage on the life of another. Hospers sees these as three versions of the same […]
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A Moral Challenge II By Carl Watner I am getting increasingly frustrated (as I write this it is August 2007) because so very few seem to comprehend my moral argument that taxation is theft. Even members of my own family don’t seem to get it. It appears to me that there are two components to the […]
A Moral Challenge By Carl Watner I have recently been having correspondence with my son about the morality of government taxation, and it prompted this “challenge.” I maintain that taxation is theft and contrary to the universally accepted moral principles: thou shall not steal and thou shall not murder. While these two principles are found in the […]
“I’ll say this plainly, I’ve said it before – Taxation is theft. It presumes the government has a higher claim on our property than we do,” says Judge Andrew Napolitano, the host of Fox Business’ Freedom Watch and the author of the new book, It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: […]
