> You're literally taking people's money under the threat of force
Money that would have no meaning, earned for work which would largely be impossible, without said threat of force.
Money that would have no meaning, earned for work which would largely be impossible, without said threat of force.
You're confusing threat of force to enforce property rights and personal freedoms with the threat of force to collect taxes.
How do you plan on paying your police?
To give an absurd, extreme example: if you lived in a nation going through a famine and your hobby was watching bread mold, it might be morally just to take away your warehouse of stockpiled bread to let the starving people eat, even if it meant you couldn't continue your thrilling bread-mold-watching hobby.
Morally? Definitely. Incentivizing trade promotes human survival. Is it "just" is a different question, because justice requires a set of idealogical social principles to start from. Natural rights, divine will, reparative, or some other. YMMV