The government has no right to tax earnings from labor. Taxation of this kind requires the laborer to devote a certain percentage of hours worked to earning money for the government. Thus, such taxation forces the laborer to work, in part, for another' s purpose. Since involuntary servitude can be defined as forced work for another' s purpose, just as involuntary servitude is pernicious
is taxing earnings from labor.
presupposing the inevitability of a hierarchical class system in order to oppose a given economic practice