Is it okay for me to steal from you in order to feed those I think are deserving of the resources you have created for your own life? Is it moral for me to put a gun to your head in order to accomplish these things? How then does it become moral if the state does these things? The simple fact is that it is not!
Taxation no matter how benevolent one insists is their cause is still theft, and it is wrong! Hence just one more reason government by man and all its actions is immoral and contrary to Natural Law!
One says, "But you're being extreme Shane, nobody is putting a gun to your head". But that is precisely what the state does!
It first writes a law (an arbitrary dictate deriving from fallible and capricious human beings) claiming that it has some kind of special license that allows it to supersede and override Natural Laws which command us not to steal from one another. Then if you do not capitulate to such things, it claims it has the right to impose heavy fines while hanging the threat of possible imprisonment (locking your life up in a cage) for daring to disobey them.
And finally in order to maintain the enforcement of all its arbitrary commands (often sold under the pretense and guise that it is doing these things for some good and necessary reason) it sends its men armed with the guns! Guns that were financed by what they initially stole from you to begin with.
Ah behold the beauty of relinquishing the power that enabled us to govern our own lives over to others, so that a few can write the rules for the rest of us, and then claim they have a right to impose their wills with what is ultimately nothing less than the threats of violence!
And so again I say, if I have no real right to steal from you, even though I believe I'm doing a good thing, then neither does the state, regardless of whatever 'laws' (wills of men written on paper) have been passed.
And so it is that we understand that taxation, no matter what we say it's being used for, is theft!
