Originally Posted by
igualitarist
The government gets 50% of the shit you earn, and they can do this because of its coercive force, legitimated by law (corporations don't have this prerrogative, so it's pretty different). It basically means another entity is getting half of your work, and you have no choice because this entity will use the law to force you to give them a massive amount of your income.
It involves appropriation of a huge amount of your work, by another entity, through coercive means. Yeah, that's not slavery, i was exaggerating just to give the picture of how oppresive and ridiculous this system is.
In the past, even a 20% tax burden was enough to make people riot... lol.
Now we accept the government taking half of our shit.
If you work 8 hours/day, then 4 hours is given to politicians and bureaucrats for free, so this exploitative system can be sustained.