The following is a filmed exchange between filmmaker Jan Helfeld and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:

HELFELD: If the government is in the business of forcefully taking money from some people in order to pay for the welfare of others, how will the people whose wealth is being taken feel about the government?

REID: Well, I don’t accept your phraseology. I don’t think we ‘force.’

HELFELD: Taxation is not forceful?

REID: Well, no. In fact, quite to the contrary. Our system of government is a voluntary tax system.

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That’s right, dear reader, the U.S. tax system is voluntary. And no one is forced to participate.

Of course, if you *don’t* “volunteer,” your property is seized, you face crippling financial penalties, and you may well go to jail.

Sorry, Senator Reid. We’re not buying it. If that’s ‘voluntary,’ it’s also voluntary when you give your wallet to the guy who steps out of an alley, points a gun at you, and snarls, “Your money or your life.”

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