Re: Simple reason why I do not think taxation = theft
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Being denied others' property != being stripped of your own property. You cannot opt out of others' rights.
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The objection is not that those without land (specifically land - this issue strikes directly to the heart of the objection to territorial monopoly) are having something taken away from them. Rather, they form a second class of humans: those that require the permission of others to exist. Without the permission of others, they have no right to be on anyone's property, ergo they have no right to be without the permission of others. Enforcing strict property rights doesn't directly take any property from them, but simultaneously invalidates their right to self ownership.
Whether this is a practical issue or not is a separate (and I think less interesting issue).
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