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All taxes, levied upon a man's property for the support of government, without his consent, are mere robbery; a violation of his natural right of property.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues that taxation without consent is a violation of property rights.
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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.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?