| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - ryan. taxes are the takinf of money. but property is a convention enforced by the state. if the stae did not protect your property then you would not have it at all because someoen would steal it. taxation is not theft. the only way there can be theft is if there is some convention prescribing what someone owns. govenrment reiinforces the socila convention of settled possession. tax might be moral
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