Is taxation theft?

If you define theft as taking money from another by force then yes.

>>510573341 (OP)
If this is a yes or no question, and the answer is no not theft, is there any limit to how much the government can take from you? When you look at it this way, any taxation is theft because eventually the taxation will take everything from you and that is not right.

>>510573531
Theft is taking, robbery is taking under threat of force.

>>510573341 (OP)
I have never heard a single argument as to how taxation is not theft.

>>510573341 (OP)
Is extracting the surplus value of labor theft?

>>510573341 (OP)
If it doesn't provide me an essential service, yes.

>>510574669
surplus value of labour is a made up term that means nothing

i'd say it's closer to protection racket. This is continuation of system started by ancient warlords demanding money from surrounding villages to "protect" them from other warlords.

>>510573341 (OP)
>>510573531
>>510574055
If they rebranded taxes as being membership fees for whatever country your in, and failure to pay was punishable by deportation, would you faggots complain less?

>>510575795
If the mafia came into your store, complimented it and lamented about how terrible it would be if something bad happened to it, would you complain less?

Seems unlikely.

>>510575795
It's not about branding, at least not for me.
I call inflation a tax even though few people call it that because that's what it functionally is.
The punishment is also irrelevant to the morality of it.