Chodorov: Taxation is theft/evil

https://mises.org/etexts/taxrob.asp

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion."

http://mises.org/etexts/rootofevil.asp

"The Constitution, then, kept the federal government off balance and weak. And a weak government is the corollary of a strong people.

The Sixteenth Amendment changed all that. In the first place, by enabling the federal government to put its hands into the pockets and pay envelopes of the people, it drew their allegiance away from their local governments. It made them citizens of the United States rather than of their respective states. Theft loyalty followed theft money, which was now taken from them not by their local representatives, over whom they had some control, but by the representatives of the other forty-seven states. They became subject to the will of the central government, and their state of subjection was emphasized by every increase in the income-tax levies.
The state governments likewise lost more and more of their autonomy."