- 15 Oct 2021 16:55
#15194517
Because you want to play it deuces wild:
See? Slavery is a legal and/or societal institution that enables certain people forcibly to compel certain other people to labor for the former's benefit on a more or less permanent basis. So taxing people's labor may be legalized robbery, but it is not slavery, as no one is thereby forcibly compelled to labor for another's benefit.
The Resister wrote:I've offered no definition of the word slavery.
Because you want to play it deuces wild:
Taxing a man's labor, however, IS a form of slavery.
See? Slavery is a legal and/or societal institution that enables certain people forcibly to compel certain other people to labor for the former's benefit on a more or less permanent basis. So taxing people's labor may be legalized robbery, but it is not slavery, as no one is thereby forcibly compelled to labor for another's benefit.