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Different terminology wouldn’t make it more moral
If we are busy changing the names of things, why should we try to hide their true meaning instead of calling them for what they are: Armed Rubbery? The suggestion is as ridicules as the believe that people despise taxes because of the name, and not because of what they are paying. This is so typical for the newspaper which believed that if we will not call Mugabe for what he is, a dictator that brought disaster on his county, he will become the romantic figure some desired him to be.
The fact is that if taxes were as great as the columnist suggest he wouldn’t need the verbal and intellectual impressive flexibility he demonstrated. But they aren’t - they are immoral and inefficient tool to take one’s property to the use of the ruler - may it be a king, the mob or a group of power grub professional busy bodies.