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"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."

— Rothbard, Murray event 1982

From The Ethics of Liberty

Context: From Chapter 24, "The Moral Status of Relations to the State," of The Ethics of Liberty (1982).

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payments Taxation key Property Rights balance Natural Rights policy Libertarianism