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Taking your money at gunpoint

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You pay taxes because the government forces you to. The only differences between taxation and robbery are:

  1. The government makes it legal (when they do it).
  2. The government has more window-dressing or layers of deception. For example, they’ll say that you pay taxes voluntarily. (Which is deception, because they will jail you and/or your banker if you don’t pay; and shoot you if you resist jail.)

In Seminole County, FL, they just got a little more honest. Seminole County tax collector will allow employees to carry guns.

Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg told the Orlando Sentinel that according to Florida law, he and his employees are considered “revenue officers” and are exempt from the state’s ban on the open carrying of firearms while performing their duties…

He said 15 to 20 employees will be allowed to carry firearms. Greenberg said no one will be forced to carry a weapon, adding that he “can’t imagine that they wouldn’t want to.”

The citizens, by contrast, can’t carry guns. So now the tax collectors are armed, and the citizens aren’t. (Whereas before, they met on slightly more equal terms and had to bring the police in for any physical disputes.) Roman empire, here we come!

Comments

  1. Eh….slightly deceptive here.

    A ban on open carry simply means that they don’t allow you to carry a gun openly outside of your own property. Concealed Carry and open carry on your own property, including your house, is still permitted, and the tax officials are far more likely to accost you at your residence.

    None the less, a ban on open carry is an infringement on your right to keep (possess) and bear (carry with you) arms.

  2. But, but, but,

    without taxes, who would build the roads, or the UC Berserk-ley, and Evergreen Strategical Tantrum Colleges?!

    Ha!

    Hey!

    Ho!

    No KKK,

    No fascist USA!

    Etc, etc, etc.

    Meh.

  3. This was an opener I gave to a sermon on 4-15 many years back:
    ___________________________________________
    1. On a dark street, a man draws a knife and demands my money for drugs.
    2. Instead of demanding my money for drugs, he demands it for the Church.
    3. Instead of being alone, he is with a bishop of the Church who acts as the bagman.
    4. Instead of drawing a knife, he produces a policeman who says I must do as he says.
    5. Instead of meeting me on the street, he mails me his demand as an official agent of the government.

    If the first is theft, it is difficult to see why the other four are not also theft.

    (From, J. Budziszewski, The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man, 92)

  7. My small-government republican grandmother who battled the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party her entire live always reminded me that, “…taxation is theft.”

    She’s been gone now over thirty-years, but I see no reason to change that observation.

  9. The current ruling elites were the counter culture of the 60s. Once they graduated to the real world, they immediately became the “Man” they so loudly despised. They cashed in at our expense. Barry Goldwater was correct when he said that “Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away”. My view of the last 20 years is a government handing out pennies while taking dollars. It’s straight out of Machiavelli. The challenge for the next generation will be to recognize the fraud and take back their inherent rights and responsibilities.

  10. Craig – OK, so your point is that the county assessor will come to the citizen’s house, where the citizen may indeed be armed.

    OK, fair enough. But still…Armed country assessors? Being visited by an assessor who now totes a gun? That doesn’t change the dynamic?

    In the U.S., government is supposed to(!) be subservient to the People; even grovelling.