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Originally Posted by fintstone
I don't understand what you are asking. I am perfectly fine with paying taxes for any purpose in the Constitution. Being taxed for forced charity/redistribution is not in there...nor is it moral in any way.
Avoiding work and receiving social welfare is essentially theft. Taxing people (taking their money) to redistribute to others that did not earn it is the same. Theft...if not essentially slavery.
A slave's time/work product is owned by others (without consent). My salary was essentially a return for giving up a good portion of my time/life (@16 hrs a day 5-7 days a week). If I do not own my time or the product of it (it is redistributed against my will to others without them providing any value to me in return) ...I am essentially a slave. The recipients are much more like free men than I... They (or at least the government) ...are essentially my owner (because they own the product of my life/time).
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It is also theft to not pay your taxes.
But we are not speaking of theft. We are talking, in BOTH cases, about following the rules currently in place for one’s own benefit.
Choosing to minimize work preformed to meet a regulation is a choice. Just as investing assets in a given way to minimize tax outlay.
If someone is willing to live on peanuts to meet sub poverty level welfare requirements, good for them. That juice in my mind is not worth the squeeze. But it’s still legal.
Where you clearly have issue is that it is a moral failure for the individual. That is an opinion. Some might call it clever and smart. The ultimate tax avoidance. Don’t make anything, government can’t take anything.
If the person is not cheating or scamming the system, more power to them. Again, wouldn’t be my lifestyle, but I can appreciate the ability needed to live that way.
Neighbor has 550 acres. He has tied up a lot of that as forestry preservation. His tax bill is ~$500 a year. My small 7 acres is $6800. He uses the system to minimize his tax base legally following the rules. I don’t begrudge him that.