A response completely bereft of any logical argument about why taxation is "theft and slavery". Do you have any arguments that would support this assertion?
I don't want to support foreign wars. I don't want to support foreign aid to countries that use it to conduct wars. I don't want to support incarceration. Yet, if I don't (e.g. pay taxes), I will be imprisoned, shot, etc.
it's a comment on a web forum, he doesn't have to reiterate the entire history of heterodox economics for you to be convinced its a defensible position. and anyway, it's quite besides the point since the economic argumentation is secondary to the observation that cypherpunks were an anti-taxation and anti-government - basically anarchist - subculture out of which crypto emerged.