{"id":5544,"date":"2009-09-04T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T06:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2010-03-13T20:40:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T02:40:38","slug":"stealing-is-okay-when-the-government-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/stealing-is-okay-when-the-government-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing is Okay When the Government Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/PoliceState.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr33agents.com\/765\/stealing-is-okay-when-the-government-does-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">FR33Agents.com<\/a> | Compassion is easy when you don\u2019t need to worry about pesky concepts like \u201cconsent.\u201d I mean, if I really want to be compassionate, I can always just mug some rich guy and give the proceeds to a local homeless shelter. This is effectively what the government is doing, but since they don\u2019t call it \u201ctheft,\u201d but \u201ctaxation\u201d and \u201credistribution,\u201d we accept it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny how so many people equate taxation with charity; as if having your property rights violated by being forced to give up your money is somehow compassionate. What part of taxation makes it a sincere form of generosity? I mean, it\u2019s not like you have a choice to pay taxes. If you don\u2019t, then you can either leave the country (where you\u2019ll probably pay more in taxes) or go to prison. Neither option is particularly attractive. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr33agents.com\/765\/stealing-is-okay-when-the-government-does-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FR33Agents.com | Compassion is easy when you don\u2019t need to worry about pesky concepts like \u201cconsent.\u201d I mean, if I really want to be compassionate, I can always just mug some rich guy and give the proceeds to a local homeless shelter. This is effectively what the government is doing, but since they don\u2019t call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[134,36,11],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-coercive-monopoly","tag-police-state","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}