Taxation Without Protection

[j.p.]

This proposition is a logical deduction from Hobbes’s theory that the prime function of the state and the reason for its existence is the safety of the citizens embraced by the social contract.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher best known for his masterpiece Leviathan (1651) and his contribution to social contract theory. He viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security and justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens.

From DOI
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

When the king wouldn't protect his subjects (British citizens) from danger, it was a cause for rebellion.


If you are dumb enough to think that Hobbes, Jefferson, and the rest were in favor of a totalitarian police state and that is what Carlson is talking about you are simply out of your fucking mind. It most certainly about protecting the citizens against you and your cretin friends the looters, the rioters, the arsonists and antifa from the anarchy, chaos, and savage behavior tearing the country apart. It is a question of why pay taxes if the protection guaranteed by the social contract is not being upheld.

Hobbes, Jefferson no.  Carlson, Roseff yes