Taxation: Of Human Bondage

As a postscript to my Magna Farta piece a few days ago it now emerges that the document was agreed upon by the authorities on condition that taxation would be levied and accepted so we see that the much famed document on liberty that has been drooled over in hushed and sometimes noisy reverence over the centuries was no such thing as it allowed the slavery of taxation to be codified in law and so it is to this day,lending it legitimacy by association with such a hallowed document.

The longevity of a practice or tradition does not or should not lend it moral justification but as with Islam so too with taxation we find that this is far from the case and that the long passage of time does indeed furnish suspect practices with a public respectability and inviolability from criticism, acquiring the public's acceptance and acquiescence which makes the job of those who would question the morality and ethics of such things exceedingly difficult as one is fighting against centuries of entrenched custom,tradition,received wisdom and of course the powerful forces of vested interests and corrupt morribund institutions.