Imagine your family has owned a farm for 8 generations. This beautiful 20-acre farm has been past down from father to son every generation and is completely debt-free.

Now on that farm, there's row of 10 apple trees. Your Great-grandfather planted those 10 trees decades ago. Your kids love apple-picking. Every year, your wife bakes a bunch of apple pies for the family with the apples from those trees.

One day, you decide to fill a basket with 100 apples. So, you get up at the crack of dawn and start picking the best apples you can find. It takes you about an hour or so. Your wife is so happy! This will be another great holiday season!

Around noon, the door bell rings. It's your neighbor. He saw you picking apples with his binoculars. He demands that you give him 35 apples because he saw you pick a huge basket of 100 apples and his farm doesn't have any apple trees.

Let Me Ask You This:

Who owns the apples? Who owns the labor of picking the apples? Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Do the apples belong to the neighborhood? What percentage of apples belong to the farmer and what percentage belong to the neighborhood?

Here's What Happens:

You look at your neighbor, slam the door in his face and tell him, "Go to Hell! Pick your own damn apples you lazy bastard!"

A Great Idea to Make Some Money:

You're a hard working guy. so, the next day you decide to pick 1,000 apples that you can sell at the local farmer's market.

So, you get up at the crack of dawn and start picking. It takes you all day to pick the apple trees clean. Now, You have 10 baskets to sell at the farmer's market.

The next day you get up early, load your truck with apples, and head on over to the local farmer's market.

You set up a small fruit stand. You decide on a price. 4 apples for a dollar. Everybody loves your fresh crisp apples!! You completely sell out!

You just made $250 the old fashioned way. You earned it! You picked the apples. You loaded the truck. You set up the stand at the farmer's market.

You head home with $250 cash in your pocket. Tomorrow you'll use that hard earned cash to buy groceries at the supper market for your family of six.

The next day, the door bell rings. It's the tax man. He says, "All income is subject to a 35% income tax. You owe the I.R.S. $87.50 because you sold some items at the farmer's market Yesterday."

Let Me Ask You This:

How can the government demand a cut of the profit just because the farmer decides to trade 4 apples for a dollar?

Who owns the apples? Who owns the labor of picking the apples? Who owns the dollars? Is a man not entitled to all the sweat of his brow?

Do the apples belong to the government? What percentage of apples belong to the farmer and what percentage belong to the government?

Here's What Happens:

You look at the tax man, slam the door in his face and tell him, "Those are my damn apples that I picked myself on my own damn farm! I have to feed my family! Taxation is Theft! Now, Get the Hell off my property!!!"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
~ Thomas Jefferson

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat

"Theft is when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them. Either governments own "their people" as slaves or taxation is theft."
~ Adam Kokesh

“Through inflation, governments secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million can detect the theft.”
~ John Maynard Keynes

Taxation is Theft

Let Me Ask You This:

Here's What Happens:

A Great Idea to Make Some Money:

Let Me Ask You This:

Here's What Happens:

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
~ Thomas Jefferson

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat

"Theft is when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them. Either governments own "their people" as slaves or taxation is theft."
~ Adam Kokesh

“Through inflation, governments secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million can detect the theft.”
~ John Maynard Keynes

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Taxation is Theft

Let Me Ask You This:

Here's What Happens:

A Great Idea to Make Some Money:

Let Me Ask You This:

Here's What Happens:

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."~ Thomas Jefferson

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”~ Frédéric Bastiat

"Theft is when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them. Either governments own "their people" as slaves or taxation is theft."~ Adam Kokesh

“Through inflation, governments secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million can detect the theft.”~ John Maynard Keynes

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Larken Rose - I'm Allowed to Rob You

You may also like:

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
~ Thomas Jefferson

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat

"Theft is when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them. Either governments own "their people" as slaves or taxation is theft."
~ Adam Kokesh

“Through inflation, governments secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million can detect the theft.”
~ John Maynard Keynes

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche