brucie, how do you propose to pay for roads, bridges, schools, your health care system, etc., without taxes? As a concept, it's just the bill for services rendered. As practiced, it is, as you say, grossly unfair.

But to try to put it into the same category as slavery really does the people who are physically held captive against their will and treated as property an injustice. Maybe extortion would be a more appropriate word for your view of taxation.