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While I 100% agree that "taxation is not theft" and I realize that they're necessary (and legal!) and I pay them....we're not really "free to leave at any time".

For one thing, the United States has a 30% expatriation tax. They will take 30% of your wealth just for leaving.



So leaving has a price, it's still not theft.


It means you're not "free" to go.


You're free to go.

Your stuff (which was partially acquired via exploitation of the ecosystem that is the country that wants those taxes... Bet you drove on a public road) isn't.


Maybe, but I can't "just leave".


Sure you can, you even get to keep 70% of the things you acquired while participating in the social contract! That's a pretty generous severance package.


Not free as a beer, free as in freedom. Modulo dictatorships.




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