Remember the 1977 movie (A Bridge Too Far) about the failed Operation Market-Garden? The only tax a free person may accept (i.e., a tax not extracted against his will) is one that is set by a person or persons whose authority has been personally agreed to by the person being taxed. Otherwise, the tax is a tax too far. A 1 percent tax is a tax too far if forced out of someone without a prior arrangement giving consent. A 70 percent tax is not a tax too far if the taxing agent has gotten the green light (authority) from the taxpayer to set that tax rate.
Taxation is the imposition of taxes. The fundamental question is whether or not the arrangement is consensual. Taxation can be evaluated like sex. There is consensual sex and there is non-consensual sex. A rape is non-consensual. This is why it is accurate to say that in America and everywhere else, the taxpayers are being raped when they are forced to pay taxes by persons posing as authorities or claiming to be authorities who have not been given that authority by the said taxpayers. When’s the last time anyone asked a taxpayer’s permission to impose taxes? Is there some formal procedure that occurs? Has the U.S. post office failed to deliver the messages to me? I know that no one has asked me in 70 years. In fact, I can’t recollect that the government that claims it has authority over me in countless other ways ever has asked me whether I gave it permission to exercise that power.
