Comment Re:Most taxes are legalized theft (Score 1) 324
It's the government that grants itself permission to take away my property.
The counter-argument would be that property is defined by the government, i.e. society as a whole, not the individual. You may consider the piece of land you sleep on to be yours in some intrinsic way, but there is plenty of debate on whether property is an inalienable right, if such rights exist.