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Maybe, she suggested, we don't own ourselves after all.
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If you reject the libertarian case against redistribution,
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there would seem to be an incentive
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to break in to the libertarian line of reasoning
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at the earliest, at the most modest level,
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which is why a lot of people disputed
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that taxation is morally equivalent to forced labor.
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But what about the big claim,
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the premise, the big idea
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underlying the libertarian argument?
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Is it true that we own ourselves
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or can we do without that idea