Self-ownership does not necessarily entail the strong exclusive property rights Nozick claims.

As already noted, Nozick argues that because people own themselves and hence their talents, they own whatever they can produce with these talents. Moreover, it is possible in a free market to sell the products of exercising one’s talents. Any taxation of the income from such selling, according to Nozick, ‘institute[s] (partial) ownership by others of people and their actions and labor’ (Nozick, p. 172). People, according to this argument, have these exclusive rights of ownership. Taxation then,