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Please upload "taxationistheftbot.js" unminify.

Hi @bitbutter congratulations & thanks for you new project.

I want translate this, and make pull request for language navigation. But is very difficult with the minify version of "taxationistheftbot.js".

If you can upload will be great.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards from Buenos Aires.

Did Ink change the way hyperlinks work?

Hi, this is a great project and thanks for sharing it. I have a very dumb question.

I've been look at how to add hyperlinks to other webpages and I noticed that your project has a couple.

I've cloned the repo and exported as a web page but now the hyperlinks are not working.

How am I supposed to get hyperlinks to work? Thanks in advance.

Additional counterargument to democracy

When a person says that citizens elect politicians who run tax programs, the website responds by arguing that a vote does not necessarily imply agreement to a politician's tax programs. Another argument is Michael Huemer's Bar Tab example in Chapter 4 of The Problem of Political Authority, which attempts to demonstrate that democratic decisions are not always ethically binding or enforceable. Imagine you go to a bar with some of your friends and, when the bill comes, your friends take a vote and a majority believe that you should pay for everyone's drinks. Would you feel ethically obligated to pay? What if they only made you pay for half of the drinks, and the cost of the other half was distributed across everyone else?

People may respond by saying that 10 friends is not analogous to 300 million people. What if I have 100 friends, or 1,000? Where does democracy become binding and enforceable? Why is the number of people even relevant?

Here's the original quote from the book:

You have gone out for drinks with a few of your colleagues and graduate students. You are all busy talking about philosophy, when someone raises the question of who is going to pay the bill. A number of options are discussed. A colleague suggests dividing the bill evenly among everyone at the table. You suggest that everyone pay for his own drinks. A graduate student then suggests that you pay for everybody's drinks. Reluctant to spend so much money, you decline. But the student persists: 'Let's take a vote.' To your consternation, they proceed to take the vote, which reveals that everyone at the table except you wants you to pay for everybody's drinks. 'Well, that settles it', declares the student. 'Pay up.'

Suggestion: Expand quote for "we are the government."

When the person says that we are the government, the website displays a Rothbard quote. I suggest that the website expand the quote to also include this excerpt from the previous paragraph:

If "we are the government," then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also "voluntary" on the part of the individual concerned. [...] Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have "committed suicide," since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part.

This part of his argument strikes me as more convincing and relevant than the hypothetical example of 70% of people murdering the remaining 30%.

Missing License

What is this project licensed as?

Could this information be added to a LICENSE file and referenced in the README?

Suggestion: Link to resources at the end

Perhaps if the person still isn't convinced that taxation is theft, he could be given links to videos or books that might convince him of other libertarian ideas.

If the person agrees that taxation is theft, he will most likely want to know if an how society can function without taxes. Again, maybe he could be given links to videos or books that explain it.

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