"It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist."

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Source : Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

Murray Rothbard

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