Leave the moral parity thesis alone. All you have to do is be willing to hold two contradictory views at the same time. As a good general principle, the government cannot cheat, steal or harm others. But since we as a society must protect the rights of the individual and that demands that we form institutions to accomplish that (including due process procedures) government is justified in taking/taxing but only for those ends.
The fact that a large group of individuals acting together or separately to harm the rights of others has no impact on the justification of a taxing system.
Leave the moral parity thesis alone. All you have to do is be willing to hold two contradictory views at the same time. As a good general principle, the government cannot cheat, steal or harm others. But since we as a society must protect the rights of the individual and that demands that we form institutions to accomplish that (including due process procedures) government is justified in taking/taxing but only for those ends.
The fact that a large group of individuals acting together or separately to harm the rights of others has no impact on the justification of a taxing system.