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I don’t really see that as a problem. Taxation (aka taking money by law) is a corrective measure to a free market failure: namely accounting for externalities. Sure, we could argue about whether some taxes are good or bad, and whether certain things should or should not be taxed, but the utility of taxation overall as a corrective measure is well understood.

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I made two points since i know many add exceptions for some parties when defining theft. Care to reply to the second point?

Maybe I’m being dense, but I don’t really understand your second point. Could you be more explicit? Are you saying that the government could get addicted to a certain level of addiction in society to fund itself?

If government is dependent on smokers smoking a lot to fund its activities, what happens if some smokers decide to quit? The government has vested interest to keep number of smokers high.

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