Comment Re:Heh, not so sure (Score 2, Interesting) 592
Because a free man who works gets paid and gets to decide what to do with that money.
A slave who works gets room and food, but isn't free to choose to get money in his pocket to do what he wants for instead.
Taxation is money that you've earned but don't have the freedom to decide how they will be spent.
So the less taxes you are forced to pay, the more freedom you have over the resources you've earned and freedom over the resources you've earned is one imortent aspect of freedom.
Plus, the less taxes you pay, the less money the government has to do stupid things with, like sending troops to kill people in foreign countries or overcrowding prisons with people for victimless crimes, so it actually gives you more freedom in two ways.
