You don't have a "right" to representation. This vague, always shifting definition of the word "right" causes a great deal of confusion.
The government does not grant rights. Rights are inherent, inalienable, and shared by all human beings, regardless of geography.
The government violates rights by granting privileges. One of those privileges is that a majority of the population is able to force onto a minority a "representative" who has the authority to make rules about your life and your property which violate your own rights of self-ownership and your ownership of your own property.
If you believe taxation is anything more than just theft, then I beg you to think harder about the subject. The government requires you to pay taxes because they will kidnap and imprison you, or just flat out murder you, if you don't. That is where the "requirement" to pay taxes comes from. That requirement will not disappear just because your privileges (i.e., your right to lord over others through the person of an elected representative) have possibly been violated.
You're conflating "income tax" with "taxation".
Taxation is not theft. The government has the authority to tax that which it can regulate. However, the government improperly taxes wages that are paid in exchange for labor by having the wage slave declare it as "income", which they can regulate, and paying a tax on it.
There are lots of legit taxes. The income tax is a legite tax, using the correct definition of "income" which was never, prior to the 1940's, your wage or salary.
using the correct definition of "income"
See section 83 of the irs code. Compensation for labor is not income.
That's what I said.
No, I'm not conflating the two. I don't recognize the government's authority as I never consented to it, and neither did most people. It is not a voluntary organization created from a consensual agreement between two or more parties. It is imposed on us regardless of our consent; even before we are old enough to provide consent.
The government does not have the authority to tax and has no right to exist.
But you aren't the decider for legit taxes and you don't have to do anything that's regulated so, other than an improperly imposed income tax, you can avoid all taxes if you wanted to. Hence the word voluntary.
Don't want to pay sales tax? Don't buy from a business that's regulated to sell products commercially. Don't want to play use taxes? Don't use products from businesses that are regulated by the government. Etc.
I've read Rothbard. Yes. You never specifically consented to be governed. But don't expect to enjoy the fruits of government without paying the taxes to pay for those fruits.
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