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((Short description|Criticism of taxes))
((more citations needed|date=October 2020))
[[File:Wells egyptian peasants taxes.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Egyptian peasants seized for [[tax noncompliance|non-payment of taxes]] during the [[Old Kingdom of Egypt|Pyramid Age]].]]
'''Taxation as slavery''' is the idea that [[taxation]] results in an unfree society in which individuals are forced to work to enrich the government and the recipients of largesse, rather than for their own benefit.

== History ==
Historically, the earliest and most widespread form of taxation was the [[corvée|corvee]], which can be traced back to the beginning of [[civilization]]. The corvee was state-imposed [[Unfree labor|forced labor]] on [[peasant]]s too poor to pay other forms of taxation (''labor'' in [[Ancient Egyptian literature|ancient Egyptian]] is a synonym for taxes).<ref name=burg>((cite book|title=A World History of Tax Rebellions|author=David F. Burg|date=2004|pages=vi–viii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T91k6HAODzAC&pg=PP1|isbn=9780203500897))</ref>

Most people accept that slavery was a part of life in places like ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean, ancient Rome, and Greece etc, but most people don't realize that the slaves got to keep a large amount of their own money or wealth.  For example in some of the very first records of taxation and slavery from over 5000 years, we see evidence that Egyptian Pharaohs only collected 20% tax on grain harvests,<ref>
((cite book| url=https://taxfoundation.org/taxedu/educational-resources/primer-history-of-taxes | title=History of Taxes |publisher=Tax Foundation.org))</ref> and yet the subjects were considered slaves at this high level of taxation, as is recorded in the book of Genesis 41:34-36

((cquote|"Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food."<ref>
((cite book| url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2041:34-36&version=NIV | title=Book of Genesis 41:34-36|publisher=Holy Bible))</ref>))

In her book, ''American Patriots'', journalist Gail Buckley wrote, "In British eyes, the American colonies existed only for the benefit of the mother country, but Americans saw any form of taxation as slavery."<ref>((cite book| url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/buckley-01patriots.html | title=American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military From the Revolution to Desert Storm | last=Buckley | first=Gail | publisher=Random House | date=May 14, 2002 | page=3))</ref> [[Anarcho-capitalists]] and other [[right-libertarians]] are some of the foremost proponents of the argument that taxation is equivalent to [[slavery]].((Citation needed|date=October 2020)) The [[International Society for Individual Liberty]] has made this claim,<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/end-tax-slavery.html |title=ISIL -- End Tax Slavery Now |accessdate=2008-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509170504/http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/end-tax-slavery.html |archivedate=2008-05-09 ))</ref> as has [[Bureaucrash]],<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.bureaucrash.com/Tax-Slavery-Sucks |title=Tax Slavery Sucks &#124; Bureaucrash |website=www.bureaucrash.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830093855/http://www.bureaucrash.com/Tax-Slavery-Sucks |archive-date=30 August 2008 |url-status=dead))</ref> which refers to [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] as "social slavery."<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.bureaucrash.com/Social-Slavery |title=Social Slavery &#124; Bureaucrash |accessdate=2008-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629084407/http://bureaucrash.com/Social-Slavery |archivedate=2008-06-29 ))</ref>

[[George Mason University]] professor Thomas Rustici uses two hypothetical anecdotes to illustrate his point of view:
((cquote|In the first, Sam Slime mugs a person for £50. In the second, Sam Slime votes for a politician who taxes a person in order to redistribute £50 to the "disadvantaged" Slime. Both examples involve the use of force. However, the second scenario is arguably worse, since through the state, Slime is now empowered to repeatedly take others' money, thus putting them in a condition of slavery."<ref>((cite web |url=https://mason.gmu.edu/~trustici/ECON309/Economics%20309.pdf|title=George Mason University Economics and Public Policy Problems Economics 309|author=Dr. Thomas Carl Rustici))</ref>))

[[Leo Tolstoy]] argued that taxation of labor is one of three stages of slavery (the other two being ''land slavery'' and ''personal slavery'').<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/tolstoy-leo_on-the-land-question-and-slavery-1909.html |title=Leo Tolstoy / On the Land Question and Slavery -- 1909 |accessdate=2013-09-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305214327/http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/tolstoy-leo_on-the-land-question-and-slavery-1909.html |archivedate=2014-03-05 ))</ref>

== See also ==
((columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* [[Chibalo]]
* [[George Fitzhugh]]
* [[Income tax]]
* [[Political ethics]]
* [[Redeemers]]
* ''[[The Road to Serfdom]]''
* [[Self-ownership]]
* [[Serfdom]]
* [[Taxation as theft]]
* [[Tax noncompliance]]
* [[Tax protester history]]
* [[Voluntary taxation]]
))

== References ==
((reflist|2))

((anarcho-capitalism))
((tax resistance))

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[[Category:Anarcho-capitalism]]
[[Category:Libertarian terms]]
[[Category:Slavery]]
[[Category:Libertarian theory]]

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