On the record
On what principle does a man pay his taxes to the government, except on that of contributing his proportion towards the necessary cost of protecting the rights of all?
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner questions the rationale behind tax payments, linking them to the protection of rights.
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It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.