Editor's Note: Originally published at The Roots of Liberty February 2016. A recent conversation about the morality of taxation prompted this trip down memory lane. There’s an old joke that goes “There are two types of people in the world – those who divide people into two types and those who don’t.” It mocks the common practice of bifurcating people, things, ideas and the like into binary “either-or” categories, a practice that usually oversimplifies matters, eliminates information and introduces inaccuracy.
Ah yes, the ole "police, firefighters, and the library are socialism" argument. Gotta love it. Thanks for the repost