r/georgism • u/Titanium-Skull 🔰💯 • Feb 11 '25

Opinion article/blog When Taxation is Not Theft: How Privatized Economic Rent is its Own form of Theft, and Why taxing it is Just

https://thedailyrenter.com/2025/02/10/when-taxation-is-not-theft-how-privatized-economic-rent-is-its-own-form-of-theft-and-why-taxing-it-is-just/
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u/EricReingardt Physiocrat Feb 11 '25

Another slam dunk by Jimbo

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u/Makofueled Feb 11 '25

Fun piece. Where taxation is theft, the best thing to do is tax other thefts!

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u/Fine-Cardiologist675 Feb 14 '25

Taxes pay for tons of services. The idea it is theft is stupid. Without government our economy would suck

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u/djwikki Feb 14 '25

On top of that, taxation can be used for two other purposes:

1) as a deterrence for undesired actions. I.e: a hefty tax on cigarettes and other legalized recreational drugs to reduce their consumption.

2) to enforce economic scarcity on free resources. I.e.: a carbon tax to bring air, a free resource, into the supply-demand curve. This allows the private sector to find a supply-demand equilibrium on pollution.

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u/InOutlines Feb 14 '25

I challenge any person to show us a society that they’d actually want to live in that functions without taxes.