Re: Simple reason why I do not think taxation = theft
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If anything the pervasiveness of "government" throughout history says to me that it is a beneficial evolutionary trait or it would have been selected against more effectively.
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Recorded history is a pretty small sample size.
The instinct to form coalitions was probably a very beneficial trait (when our survival was less secure) which is still hard wired into us. So, in an environment where communication and transportation with other parts of the world is relatively easy, we end up concluding that a strong centralized state is the solution. But I think it's reasonable to conclude that this is a misapplication, and that a few thousand years just isn't anywhere close to enough time for the misapplication to have corrected itself.
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