>>221022I just woke up so I'm not sure if this argument is entirely salient or what but here's my justification for taxation
Taxation is obviously necessary to some degree for the functioning of society. Unless you're an anarchist you'll agree that we need some minimal level of taxation.
Moving a step lower, we should also be able to agree that taxation is necessary to prevent corporate monopolization; without any checks on corporate growth, they'd be free to keep the billions of dollars they earn and allocating them towards strangling small businesses.
>but that's their right to do in a free market!This ^ is a corporate boot licker point because it ignores the fact that corporations are not your friends and monopolies almost invariably lead to anti-comsumer practices.
So now we have a justification for taxing
• The common person
• The corporation
The question becomes "how much"?
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