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Libertarians occasionally come under criticism for labelling tax as theft. The objections to the 'theft' label are many and varied. ... Such claimants are morons.
The real morons are those who, notwithstanding overwhelming arguments to the contrary, continue to seek to maintain that tax is theft. Actually, "morons" is probably not the right word; these people are generally moderately intelligent, but exhibit too much hubris to acknowledge that one of their pet polemical pieces has been comprehensively demolished, even though (or perhaps because) the demolition took place on their own website. One had hoped that, with the passing of another year, Libertarians would have had time to grieve properly for the loss of this nostrum and might now devote their time and intellectual energies to matters of more importance and on which they have more credibility ... as well as more to contribute. Still, if Strawman gets pleasure from continuing to peddle this kind of simplistic polemical nonsense to his Libertarian mates, and no-one else takes it seriously, I suppose that there is no real cause for concern and, in fact, from a utilitarian perspective, the process actually constitutes a welfare gain. Richard Smart
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