Originally Posted by Guest

First of all, I'm not defending slavery at all. but slaves were paid in food, shelter, and clothing. Some were also paid small amounts of cash. So the slave owners did not steal 100% of the proceeds from their work.

But the fact that they could not choose to be where they were made slavery an abomination.

But secondly, I assume that this meme is implying that, by levying the government is stealing from us. We are a representative republic and we hire people to represent us in making decisions on how the country should be run. Obviously, there are common expenses that we need to pay for and taxes are supposed to serve that purpose.

Now you can argue about the amount of taxes that we pay or the system by which we pay them or if the money is being used wisely, but to equate taxation with stealing is absurd.