Property Tax Forfeiture, or, One More Reason to Shrink a Government

File this under "Disgusting Abuses of Government Power."

The Question of Taxation: One Latter-day Saint’s Perspective

Serious question: how many friends would I have to gather before we could declare ourselves a government and take your money under threat of violence, justifying the act as taxation?

Americans are Paying for Trump’s Trade War

The damage to consumers and businesses includes a monthly deadweight loss of $1.4 billion, $12.3 billion extracted from the private sector in the form of tariff revenues, and, in 2018, $68.8 billion in lost economic activity.

Taxes as Evidence of Ownership?

I've been thinking about the underlying logic, and I think I've developed a reasonable protest: the logical conclusion of this argument is that citizens are the slaves of their respective governments.