Taxpayer Mind Trick

Storm Trooper: Let me see your identification.
Ben Kenobi: You don't need to see his identification.
Storm Trooper: We don't need to see his identification.
Ben Kenobi: These are not the droids you're looking for.
Storm Trooper: These are not the droids we're looking for.
Ben Kenobi: He can go about his business.
Storm Trooper: You can go about your business.
--Star Wars

As another Tax Day looms over us, many people maintain the charade that we live in a free country. When government can forcibly take the fruits of one's labor, then people are not free.

It is often said that taxation is theft. But theft is generally a one-off event, and is usually unanticipated by the victim.

Taxation involves routine expropriation of production. It is more akin to slavery. Taxpayers are today's slaves.

That many of these taxpayers believe that they live in a free land is a mind trick worthy of Jedi status.