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A simple question. Do you have the right to other people's property and to enforce the taking of it through the use of the government?
For myself, I will say no because it is your property and you can do with it as you see fit as long as it doesn't infringe the rights of others or harm them. I will state that property includes money, real property, and personal property.
Well if you mean things like taxes in general (since you included money), then yes I do. Because we've aggregated certain services over government which is, in some cases, best able to handle the high degree of aggregation and sophistication in our society. As such, we all use these services and are all offered these services, so we all pay for these services. If you don't think you should pay, then tough noogies because we ain't going the route of opting out of certain services to avoid certain taxes. It gets well too complicated for crap like that and we're just deal with the reality of the situation. Everyone pays, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If you refuse to pay, you've essentially robbed the rest of us, and that is something we are well within our rights to use government force to use.