{"id":18128,"date":"2012-11-11T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2012-11-11T21:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:35:01","slug":"tax-is-not-theft-never-has-been-and-never-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/11\/tax-is-not-theft-never-has-been-and-never-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax is not theft, never has been and never will be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted this last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where did this absurd myth that the government's money is 'ours' come from? Taxes belong to the government and no else. You pay it because you owe it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It caused some controversry.<\/p>\n<p>I followed it up with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democracy is a process by which we hold government accountable: it does not make government our agents<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Libertarians were not happy.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/TaxLegitimacy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">my thinking is noted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted this last night: Where did this absurd myth that the government&#8217;s money is &#8216;ours&#8217; come from? Taxes belong to the government and no<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/11\/11\/tax-is-not-theft-never-has-been-and-never-will-be\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}