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To levy upon a few kinds the cost of protecting all, is a naked robbery of the holders of those few kinds, for the benefit of the holders of all other kinds.
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Lysander Spooner
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He describes the taxation system as a form of robbery when it unfairly burdens certain property holders.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.