When we contract a service, we sign a contract that contains all the necessary conditions for the good relationship between contractor and hired. Rights and duties are broadly and clearly stated in it. A voluntary commitment is sealed.
In our relationship with the state this does not happen. First and foremost, the authority of the state under individuals is something imposed. We do not sign and never sign a contract where we have our rights and duties, and the rights and duties of the state.
The state, taking advantage of its monopoly on the use of force and violence and through coercion, establishes a relation of property over us. A relationship, first of all, not of respect, but of fear.
State, an institution that historically is illegitimate in the middle of society. Illegitimate because the history itself tells us how its domains were given. Domain that was through the invasion of private property, death, imprisonment or slavery of the owners of these lands and, through illegal exploitation, the state established itself.
With all this exposed and using the history itself to enrich my arguments, impossible not to think that the collection of taxes by the state, is really theft. We pay taxes not to have "public, free and quality" services, but not to be threatened and imprisoned.
This photo I did on a busy avenue in Recife. On this stone someone wrote the phrase, which means in English, "All taxes are theft." I agree very much, congratulations to the artist.
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It's good to see anarchists/agorists in Portugal.
I'm brazilian ;)
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