I hope your use of adjectives has calmed down your nerves.
> You might want to take a couple seconds to think about all the ways that taxation is different from actual slavery
I've thought and read about this for more than a couple of seconds, but if it makes you feel edgy to make unfounded statements about how much research your interlocutor has put into what he has said, then whatever floats your boat.
> Taxation doesn't control who you can marry.
Tell that to gay people in the US.
> Taxation doesn't confiscate your children.
Tell that to those whose children have been unfairly taken away by CPS (there was a terrifying experience related on HN not long ago).
> Taxation doesn't prevent you from practicing your religion.
Religion is bigotry justified and made immune to criticism via holy books. I'm against them so I don't care about this point.
> Taxation doesn't require you to take the name of the person who owns you.
It does require you to get official papers, documents, and IDs registered with the oppressor, plus a passport and all your fingerprints to go from one tax farm to another.
> Taxation doesn't deliberately keep you ignorant and uneducated.
It sure does with the Prussian education model we use in the US, and you're anecdotal proof of that.
> Taxation doesn't beat you to death if you try to escape (it is trivially easy to renounce your US citizenship)
From Wikipedia:
Renunciation of U.S. citizenship was free until July 2010, at which time a fee of $450 was established.[29] An increase to $2,350, effective September 12, 2014, was justified as "reflective of the true cost" of processing.[30]
So it's only "trivially easy" for those that have $2,350 in the bank which if you look at the statistics for the US isn't that many people.
> Taxation doesn't tell you are less than a human because of your national origin.
Tell that to the Palestinians.
> Taxation doesn't make you owned by one person, a thing that can be sold to another person.
Tell that to the Greeks whose work and life savings are being negotiated to be sold to international banksters as we speak.
Good try though. Try again. This time try doing doing it better.