ancap
Active Member
Does the IRS come to your house and beat you with a stick until you pay your taxes?
No? Then where's the "violent force"?
Just wondering...
Any relationship that you begin voluntarily can also be ended voluntarily. The belief that your relationship with the IRS is a voluntary one is simply not true because you cannot choose to disengage from the relationship. If you do, you will be kidnapped and taken to jail. That is not voluntarism.
If you pay monthly for a gym membership (say it's a basic month to month contract for argument sake), and you decide not to pay for any more months, you will get letters and phone calls citing your non-payment. Eventually if you do not pay, your membership will simply be canceled. End of story. Relationship over.
However, when it comes to paying the IRS, this scenario plays out a lot different (the govt is very good at hiding the gun in the relationship). You'll get a couple letters in the mail citing your non-payment. Then you'll get more letters which have a far more serious tone. Then I suppose you'll get a court summons and a demand to appear before a judge. If you ignore that, an armed officer will come to your door and attempt to put you in hand cuffs. If you resist this initiation of violence with self-defense, you will be killed or brutalized on the spot.
That sound voluntary? You certainly wouldn't call your gym membership voluntary if they behaved in this same manner, and they provide you services too!