THEFT

THEFT


The point to remember is that what government 'gives’ it must first take away.
John S. Coleman

Are taxes theft? Yes! No!—Well, uh, maybe?—Hell, I don't know take a vote; conduct a poll! I've got such a headache! Words are sooo confusing.
The principal theme of this essay is an examination of and answer to the above etymological, semantical, and epistemological quagmire in which most human beings are bogged. Because of the tribalistic rituals and superstitions, by which 99% of human beings direct their lives, limited language and knowledge forge a visceral moat around the neo-cortex and cerebrum thus obstructing reason and logic from controlling primordial emotions.

Consequently, that language and knowledge used for seeking truth and recognizing reality weaves a motif of collectivist-statist tyranny that rationalizes the morality of theft and plunder, not acceptable for individual human behavior, but mandated for the perpetuation and survival of the state.

The essay's theme indicts then proves that taxes are the identical twin to the thief in the night, and are as a Cato Institute study concluded, "the belly of the beast of government." Coincidentally, those same false conclusions of what defines theft expose the abject failure of even "educated" people (journalist to economics professors) to understand, let alone demonstrate, consistent language usage, logical thinking, and non-contradictory prose.

I shall not commit such errors; therefore, to accomplish this task, it is essential that I offer a consistent, logical, non-contradictory synopsis of the philosophical axioms and principles grounding the essay's hypothesis: TAXES ARE THEFT.

1. The primacy of the individual human being. (It is self-evident.)
2. The axiom of birthrights: The self-evident absolutes per the biological fact of being born.
3. The fundamental rights subsumed under the axiom birthrights are life, liberty, property, trade, speech and bodily sovereignty.
4. Any act of force against the individual human being or his/her axiomatic birthrights is the axiomatic definition of evil.
Again, as simple with sense as I can get, reality with only one exception (the wave/particle “contradiction” of light at the sub-microscopic level of quantum physics) never allows for something to be and not to be at the same moment in time/space. An absolutely clear understanding of nature’s laws, birthrights and reality-based language is mandated for anyone to grasp the truth of this essay.

Unlike the “whim-worshipers," as Ayn Rand labeled them ("Automatic omniscience is what a whim-worshipper ascribes to his/her emotions.") those indicted in the essay as promoters and supporters of theft, I do not think or write from a Janus-faced/weathervane system of reality, ethics-justice, etc. Therefore, again not like such statists, good and evil, right and wrong are never subject to change by a vote, poll, legislation by clerk's for tyranny in Washington DC, revolving door interpretation of the constitution, or the intellectual wasteland of some columnist's mind.
Now to some final words of that précis of the book I'm writing pertinent to this essay:

In their simplest form, without loopholes, they are the Judaic-Christian Commandments: Thou shalt not kill and thou shalt not steal.
For the more earthly bound with half a mind, all precepts, referents, concretes, symbols, etc., homogenously bastardized to conceptualize “living,” “thinking,” “existence,” “rights,” “powers,” etc., to collectives such as state, government, public, nation, community, neighborhood, ad nauseam are self-evidently false and metaphysically impossible! The primacy of the individual human being proves that!

But, say their creators, pointing to vacuous constructs, “They do exist!” Absolutely not, I again prove; they are enforced! What exists, I irrefutably prove is the individual human being and the inorganic object the gun! Then, like any organized individual bandits it’s, “Your money or your life!”—albeit gangs of “crips,” “bloods,” “hell’s angels,” on the street, or the alphabet soup plunderers from Washington: IRS, DEA, RICO, FBI, et al.!

Since all birthrights are subsumed under the primacy of the individual human being, it is the primacy of evil for any form of government to lay claim to the power to grant or deny such rights. It is a self-evident abomination since to do so governments must use force.

All transactions, affiliations, bondings, etc., between or among individual human beings, without exception, can only be by the voluntary consent of each and every individual so involved.

All such bindings are consummated by signed contract, oath or vow of each and every individual human being to be so bound. All terms and conditions of the binding must be implicitly and explicitly stated and understood.

Along with the axiom, my body belongs to only me, should stand before the dawn of time with no dead people binding anyone!!

Note: Many people, usually the so-called highly educated, belittle me for my frequent use of capital letters, underlining, exclamation points, etc. Of course, I know the origins of such elitist bias. I sat through the same classes of pedantic prudery.

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