“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.”
M. Rothbard :)
The point being that organized societies consists of contracts, and I'm all for making that more so in the sense of letting those who feel coerced into them opt out. But the natural extension of that is that if you choose to owe a government nothing, then it and those who choose to remain part of what it govern has no duty to let you take part of its benefits either, as forcing them to do so would be just as much theft as taxation.
You don't get to expect to be able to choose one or the other.
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- buyers and sellers (trade) create markets.
- Taxation can happen via either currency or goods.
- Governments manage societies, most happen to fund themselves via taxes.
I'm not sure what you mean by public purpose.
Nope, markets are created by governments.
> - Taxation can happen via either currency or goods.
It's true that many early currencies are named after some commodity (shekel being a good example) because governments imposed a tax in a commodity and that then became the unit of account. It's the same principle though.
> - Governments manage societies, most happen to fund themselves via taxes.
Taxation is the sole means by which a government provisions resources away from the private sector, and to the public sector, unless your society is simple enough that you can run it without money (which is a pretty small society).
> I'm not sure what you mean by public purpose.
Things that we get by dint of belonging to a society, such as schooling and libraries.
Both statements have equal validity.
Rothbard coopted the term, which was then long established.