Which of the following would you consider to be theft?

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Out of these options, only looting should be considered theft. Taxation is more of a gray area in that, say, a 100% tax would clearly be theft but taxation as presently structured in developed countries is not "theft" the way ancaps and some libertarians say it is.

Profit and private property are also gray areas. While not inherently theft, and while necessary political goods, I take the same position as these gentlemen:

The money you hoard you stole from the poor, the unused clothes in your closet you stole from the naked, and those rotting shoes in your closet you stole from the needy.

The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they have acquired them honestly or inherited them legally.

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Private property cannot in and of itself be theft. Land could be considered theft - that you own something you did not make merely by existing there. There’s a very strong case for philosophical Georgism - the taxation of land because land is originally a public resource that must be “rented” by its owner to the government, the sole representative of the whole public.

Georgism is a great political philosophy, but would be impossible to implement as government cannot reasonably be expected to function on a single source of tax revenue.