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**Quiniacab** · 09-04-2012, 03:22 AM

... but they should realize that pre-taxable incomes are also generally very good in countries with high taxation and sufficient enough to leave a satisfactory balance post-taxation.

So you're arguing that the state has the right to take away as much of your property as it wishes, as long as a "satisfactory balance" remains?

Perhaps you should realize that it's *your* property that the state is taking away with the threat of force. I still haven't read a definitive list of things for which such a measure is permissible within Islam.

09-04-2012, 03:22 AM	#5
Quiniacab Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 509 Senior Member	... but they should realize that pre-taxable incomes are also generally very good in countries with high taxation and sufficient enough to leave a satisfactory balance post-taxation. So you're arguing that the state has the right to take away as much of your property as it wishes, as long as a "satisfactory balance" remains? Perhaps you should realize that it's your property that the state is taking away with the threat of force. I still haven't read a definitive list of things for which such a measure is permissible within Islam.
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