Been watching this forum for a while but this is my first time jumping in. Anyway, I am sure most everyone here has heard the conciet in media coverage and politician talking points that tax cuts have to be “paid” for. Of course there are a few false assumptions with this claim… There is no linea…

I get what you’re doing, but I do not agree that is a useful way of going about achieving the goal of persuading people. I elaborated on this (and illustrated how Rothbard shared my sentiments on this) in this post . I do not agree that it is advantageous to “concede” a point that you actually do no…

I assume you are talking about this quote of Rothbard’s that you cite?: It is not incumbent on the libertarian to always proclaim his full “anarchist” position in whatever he writes; but it is incumbent upon him in no way to praise taxation or condone it; he should simply leave this perhaps glaring…

Found this quote when rereading that second post you linked to. Notice how they tie the dirty word of “debt” to the notion of cutting taxes. Again, they are asserting that when you let people keep more of their money, it equates to increasing the national debt. The key point here is it is a total n…

Bingo. That’s one of the better ways to go about it. You’ll notice that is essentially the main theme of that post. Notice how I bring that up in the paragraph where I address exactly what you are talking about…and the implication that the government owns all of your income is mentioned second: Th…

@JJ: No, I think shagdrum is right on the mark. There’s nothing wrong with saying “a little taxation is better than a lot of taxation” - you don’t have to concede that taxation is morally legitimate in order to say we should prefer less taxation to more taxation. So, wherever it is useful to making …

The ultimate point is to show that we are on a path that is unsustainable and calls for doubling down on those same short sighted policies that got us here are foolish. However, throwing everything out at once can be overwhelming and is easily dismissed. Start small and work up to the big ideas. Ta…

But it is true, Government DOES own all your property that is inside its borders. And “property rights” of its citizens are merely de facto rental of country’s possessions to citizen, with the goal of giving citizens the illusion of freedom to increase their productivity for the good of future of st…

You seem to be so focused on your own idea that you’re refusing to hear what I’m saying. I’m not disagreeing with the idea of not revealing (or advocating) the full anarchist position all the time, in everything. In fact I thought I made it quite clear it is not incumbent on the libertarian to do s…

Oh spare me. I can’t actually tell if you actually believe that libertarians don’t understand their property can be taken by the state (when ironically they are probably the ones who understand that the most), or if you’re just trolling. But the point in bringing up the property rights notion is in…

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I agree. Nothing wrong with that. (as I stated here.) Too bad that’s not what he’s saying.

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