> Good, then you’ll have no objection to me helping myself to your surplus. For “the good of society.”
I don't evade taxes, so you're welcome to my surplus.
> Its interesting how people are often quite concerned with someone else’s perceived lack of things, but references to someone being a victim of violence are dismissed.
By all means, please expound upon the victims of violence caused by taxpaying in modern day America. Are you referring to those flag fringe-watching sovereign citizens and tax protesters still up in arms over the 16th amendment? Freemen of the land unjustly persecuted for courtroom creativity? Wesley Snipes?
> The fish didn’t try to justify his aquatic lifestyle by reference to moral philosophers.
Indeed, for the fish is far more wiser for not getting sucked into fruitless interminable debates with unyielding ideologues.
> a moral wrong doesn’t become acceptable on the basis of someone asserting it as an integral component of some other thing
Then you'll have to provide your alternative to taxation, and indeed your alternative to governments or societies, as those can't really exist beyond taxes, at least until we achieve a post-scarcity society.
Incidentally, I should note that being against the principle of taxation not only precludes income taxes, but sales taxes and other consumption taxes, property taxes, estate taxes, tariffs, public tolls. Even if I was to suggest a revolutionarily different society- say a maximal Georgist world where the land value tax literally was the single tax levied to fund government and alleviate inequality- you would call it theft and thus NASA would continue to go unfunded.
> Just deal with the arguments as presented rather than trying to link them back to some ideology as a convenient means of dismissal.
"Taxation is theft" is a meme well-known to the internet, and this conversation we are having has been repeated over and over uncountable times. Neither of us represent original ideas. We are just rehashing the same unanswerable debate many men have had before us.
To bring up technology into this discussion- memoization can be a way to expedite a solution.