Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "Can there ever be taxpayer money?" video.

I have never agreed to comply with any tax law. My agreement was not needed - the law was passed without my say. If the law demands that I 'manage' their money until I have to hand it over - for their having done nothing in return - then I am forced to do so. Not any part of this is by agreement.
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The 'property' referred to here, is in fact the labour of workers. It is that property which creates wealth. Tax is a legalised theft of the wealth that workers have created through their effort. Workers put up with it up to a point. Go beyond that point and they simply stop putting-in the effort.
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@downshift4503 I appeal to no law in my objection to having my possessions/wealth taken from me. It is wrong to anyone who has an interest in having a just society. Leave me with what is mine. Nothing circular in any of that.
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The word 'legal' is key here. Of course, all tax belongs to the state, legally; but who legislates to put the laws in place? The state, through government, sets the rate of tax and so legally compels those who work and create wealth, to give up some of that wealth. It knows that if it sets that rate too high, it risks receiving nothing; for who would bother working if there is insufficient reward? The legal argument is not really what matters, for the laws will be made to do whatever the tax-takers choose. However, the real nub is what people feel is just. Set taxes at a reasonable level and workers will comply by going out to work and paying tax. There is a point though, at which the act of working becomes simply not worth the effort. It's not about legality, it's about the sense of injustice felt by workers. Until of course, the totalitarian state is brought about, and people can be forced to work.
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@downshift4503 I don't like being taxed at all. I have, all my life, paid taxes, for the most part at around 20% - not by agreement but because that has been taken from my wages prior to my having been paid. I can do nothing about that. How about if the government, next week, tell people like me that the tax rate is to be 40%? 60%? Are we supposed to just keep on paying?
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@marialee-smith6772 You seem to assume that I voted.
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@ThatGuyMontag I don't have an employer. Unions are successful in ensuring that people are paid what they are worth? Awww bless.
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@keithalfred5308 If someone steals from me, then that is theft. The law might be invoked in an attempt to bring justice, but the initial act of taking my property constitutes an infringement on my well-being that is perfectly denoted by the term 'theft'.
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@downshift4503 My position is that we don't need to, and we shouldn't wait around to see of any 'Theft Act' applies - we all know within ourselves what is wrong and what is right. Just live by that.
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@downshift4503 If we keep on paying, then that becomes further than short term. What comes beyond that? There is no limit to the amount that the government would like to take from me and all other workers. By the sounds of it, Starmer is just about to take even more than we are paying now. How much of this would you like to be subjected to?
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@downshift4503 The popular revolt thing is how it used to work. I recall the response in UK to the Poll Tax riots: they just repackaged the same product. Then the millions of protestors in the streets, against the Gulf War: the war happened all the same.
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