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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Taxes on wages are theft because you created your labor. Taxes on property and pollution aren't theft because nobody created the earth. The rich have successfully conflated them all as just taxes, and most of us have no idea how tax incidence works.

You're pecking at the reason why tit works that way.