Read what I said again , realize what I said was not no taxation at all ever and that it was no federal income taxation . then we can have a real discussion . Actually I should have specified the federal bit to qualify what was not even remotely acceptable income taxation , because I might be somewhat okay with a low income tax on just the state level , for the states who chose to do itBracketed , scaled , and federal income taxation is just stupid and it ' s toxic for markets . Now , if we are going to argue purely philosophically , all taxation is theft . If we are going to argue on a basis of practicality , then I ' d say stick to the taxation clause as defined in the Constitution . <| sep |> I thought those were the main thing people watched Scrumpy for . Those are actually good .