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- Taxation is done to keep the state alive.
Extortion is done to fund a mafia's activities, and the bosses' yachts and so on.
- Calling it extortion is ridiculous, and misses the historical and social reasons we have tax.
Calling it extortion is ridiculous and misses the historical and social reasons we have mafias.
- Sure, maybe it feels like extortion because there's a threat of punishment, but a having a government is the natural state of things, and they do provide some very beneficial services.
Sure, maybe it feels like extortion because it is, but having a mafia is the natural state of things, and they do provide some very beneficial protection services.
- Extortion is done to fund a mafia's activities, and the bosses' yachts and so on.
How do you even establish property in the first place?