logicallypositive:

Maybe calling the income tax slavery is a wee bit of a stretch…. but yeah

‘Price floor’ is a more precise/better term for ‘minimum prices’.

The income tax would much better be equated with pimping. Prostitutes get to keep some revenue from their services, but pimps forcibly extract an arbitrary portion for what they claim is ‘protection’ or ‘security’, even though they themselves often pose a serious threat to the prostitute’s well-being. Sound familiar?

International aid programs equate more to extortionate lending than anything else.