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    Egalitarian arrangements such as welfare funded by taxati... — Carmelics
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    Egalitarian arrangements such as welfare funded by taxation are incompatible with the self-ownership of the wealthy.

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    • 1.Taxation on earnings is a form of coerced labor for others or for the state.
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    • 2.Self-ownership entails that a person must be allowed to profit comprehensively from control of his own resources without being compelled to contribute to others.
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    • 3.Welfare funded by taxation compels the wealthy to contribute their earnings to others.
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    • 1.Self-ownership is only coherent against a background of legitimate property holdings, which itself requires institutional enforcement funded by taxation.
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    • 2.Nozick's own entitlement theory concedes that unjust original acquisition contaminates downstream holdings, potentially justifying redistributive rectification.
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    • 3.Wealth generated in market societies is irreducibly social in origin, making the boundary between 'earned' and 'owed' conceptually indeterminate.
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    • 1.G.A. Cohen's internal critique shows self-ownership is compatible with collective ownership of external resources, which can fund welfare without violating bodily autonomy.
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    • 2.Taxation on income from external resources and capital gains does not constitute forced labor on one's person, only limitation on unilateral claims over the external world.
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    Still even if we concede that property is the product of social rules, and that normative thinking about the former must be preceded by normative thinking about the latter, there might be facts about the human condition or our agency as embodied beings that provide philosophical premises for an argument that property relations should be established in one way rather than another. Clearly, there is at least one material object with which a person does seem to have an intimate pre-legal relation t
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