Man Buys Front Row Tickets to MLB Game to Make an Epic Political Statement Fitting for Tax DayBy Jay Syrmopoulos The recent taxation is theft campaign has taken the Internet by storm, raising awareness about the concept of taxation as a form of theft. If you are confused by the term taxation is theft, just think of the government as people without any special privileges, as they are meant to be representatives of the people, not omnipotent beings granted special rights. If an average person takes money from someone under the threat of force it is called robbery, but if the government does it is considered legal and moral, and is called taxation. No one ever agreed to this arrangement, it has been forced on millions of people against their will, and a long list of justifications have been created to convince people that they are not being stolen from. And while there are social welfare programs and infrastructure projects that benefit some people, this is a minuscule fraction of the total amount stolen by the government in the form of taxes. The vast majority of the money that is brought in through taxes is used for bureaucratic budgets, collection enforcement and paying the costs associated with maintaining a global military empire. Since the government is allowed to extract money from its citizens by the barrel of a gun, this guarantees that they will have funding for any kind of project they want, even if those projects are unpopular with taxpayers. This is because the public has no choice but to pay taxes, therefore they have no say in how their money is used. When you see an entire wedding party killed in Afghanistan by an armed U.S. drone, be aware that the weapons that killed them were purchased with the money stolen from you under threat of violence. It is amoral to pay taxes to an entity that uses the funds to wage unjust wars and reap death upon millions across the globe. It is this rational deduction that has led to one of the most epic photobombs in sports history. Below is friend of the Free Thought Project, Kory Watkins, letting the world know Taxation is theft. Apparently the camera man even felt the moment as he zoomed in at the exact same time Watkins stood up to show his message. Bravo Kory Watkins and bravo camera man. Jay Syrmopoulos is a political analyst, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jays work has been published on TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. Ben Swanns Truth in Media, Truth-Out, Raw Story, MintPress News, as well as many other sites. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu. Little things like this give me hope Hope is a trap. Its only a trap if yore gullible enough to vote for it People are free to leave the country so it is not forced on anyone. If you think government is the problem there are a few failed States like Somalia where you can live government free. That doesnt mean you wont have to deal with an authority apparatus it just wont be a government apparatus you must be one of those people who believe that the rules apply to everyone simply because of their physically being within a particular geographic area, right?? Is the application of law arbitrary and capricious, or a belief in magic?? Remember, we want your FACTS,.. tangible, factual, personal firsthand, irrefutable facts, not your feelings, beliefs, opinions or the feelings, beliefs or opinions of others.. Not a circular argument such as; the law applies because the laws says it applies Nor hearsay, rumor, speculation, assumptions, presumptions, hypotheticals, conjecture, sophistry, obfuscation, scenarios, what ifs, fraud or lies. FYI; ad hominem attacks wont support your supposition of applicability either!! Somalia is a failed state because of US CORP intervention, like Libya, Djibouti, Cuba, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. Why should we leave when the government is corrupt? Who do you work for? Lets play spot the shill. Oh oh oh. I see him! pick me, pick me, pick me. I see him! If the ignorant people such as yourself would leave then the country would be much better off WE ARE NOT FREE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY. I was turned back at the Canadian border because I did not have the right papers!!! Even if you are free to leave (a dubious proposition at best) you are NOT free to take your money with you! You doubt this? Try it for yourself. Nose Tip what a terrible post. Troll or ignorant. You of the old Love it or leave it OLD hippie retort. Love something this outrageous. Never. Leave our homes so the rape can continue. Never! You do old hippies a great disservice. The country is just an area of land, it is not robbing anyone. The theft is done by men and women, under color-of-law. I was born here. A free human being. I exist as a physical entity. The government (mind control) is an abstract construct which has the authority (meaning the state of being authored) to take your stuff because other people hide behind the construct. They writeauthorthe rules that allow them to profit from your existence while burdening you from the moment you are born. just because the thief is draped in a flag, doesnt make the the theft any less a crime! Who paid for the stadium? Wait, THE FLAG is responsible for mass murder? Are you an animist? Do you believe inanimate objects commit acts and hold power over you? Unfortunately so many people are now dependent on this theft it could get to the point where a majority could become tyrannical toward a Tax paying minority. Taxation is the price we pay for a civilized society. Police, firefighters, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, sewer treatment plants, garbage pickup, clean air, drinkable water, ports and airports, soldiers, sailors and marines, aircraft carriers, fighter jets and social programs. If you dont want to pay taxes, dont live in a civilized society and steal the tax money that your fellow citizens pay. See if you can find a place to accommodate you, but stop using the infrastructure that I am only to happy to pay for. Taxation is theft is a bullshit slogan. We are all in this together. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. GOVERNMENT IS NECESSARY. Every slave master says that their job is necessary. Its not different from a robber saying Im here to help you as he takes your wallet at gunpoint or a cop saying Stop resisting as he beats an unarmed victim to death. Kudos this man has a pair. If you put a star of david over the treasury seal it will misspell usery The LAW they wrote!!!! Of course they have the Authority because they are the Authors. The words are blatant but we have been lied to from day one. If hope is always bad, how do you explain what had the men of 1776-1784 endure? How the phuque would you even be writing something on a website like this if it werent for the hope those men possessed in their soulsYou aremaking the exact same argument the commies and fascists to about guns being evil? So go live in the woods. In every society, there need to be rules, and folks to enforce the rules. How do you not get that? If you must reply, try to do so without resorting to name calling. The only people who need rules are rulers who cant otherwise productively contribute to society hence the need to dominate others and slaves, who are taught that their own minds have no worth and that superiors need to tell them how to live. Both groups are equally worthless and neither has contributed to the advancement of our species. If the rulers and slaves all disappeared tomorrow nobody would miss them 