more whinging about taxes? They have existed with every POTUS, including capital gains and excise taxes ... it is still not 'theft'.

It isn't the existence of taxes! We all realize governments need a certain amount to operate. Theft comes when government creates some new program we don't need and then taxes us to pay for it without our permission!!

so, in my case, building a wall will be 'theft', because I dont believe we need it and dont give my permission?

Taxes do not require a majority of citizens approval, anymore than a POTUS election does. The existence of those that do not agree does not make it 'theft'. It is still tax like all other tax.

So then,in your view, a tax is just a tax no matter what it is spent on or not spent at all. Do you not expect a benefit from the taxes you pay? Do you trust the government to spend your tax money wisely? Maybe a big difference between us is the level of trust we have in government. I have very little!!!!

Hmmm, if the site https://www.atr.org/full-list-ACA-tax-hikes-a6996 is legit and unbiased, maybe it would not mind listing the House bill numbers that resulted in these "taxes" on such questionable things as tanning salons and black liquor? Methinks we might have a little bit of "fake news" on the website you cited? I don't think half of these are real taxes, because they would have had to have had House bill numbers.... a House that was, by the way, Republican controlled under the last President.

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And wow, while we are waiting for those (non-existent)bill numbers, let's talk about Presidents who truly can be PROVEN as thieves, using government proceedings to line their OWN pockets?

What would you say about a President that requires anyone petitioning the government in favor of a merger (such as John Legere of T-Mobile and Marcelo Claure of Sprint) to stay at HIS hotel in DC? John Legere has been quite candid and quoted in a number of trade rags regarding the number of days he has had to be in DC, and staying at the Trump Hotel DC, in order to continue testifying in favor of the TMobile-Sprint merger. This money goes right in the pocket of the POTUS. The visits to DC keep piling up too, every time groups like the FCC "reset the shot clock" (as the govt calls it) on the merger, requiring Sprint and TMobile to come to DC with more documents.... And do you think this is the only legal action being heard by the Government?

Also, when Trump takes his weekly junkets to Mar-a-Tacky, do you think all his Secret Service detail and government-expense entourage are given free rooms on the premises? Do you think they are given free food? I doubt The Trumpster Fire dines on McDonands there, but on the priciest well-done steak smothered in catsup (gross, no class, and an abomination to cattle men everywhere, but the Emperor likes it...)... Let's see, we taxpayers pay for the food and lodging, and Trump sells it to us. PRETTY MUCH EVERY WEEKEND.

I mean, W spent a lot of time on his ranch in Crawford, but he did not own the restaurants or hotel rooms where his massive number of government entourage needs to eat and sleep.

Question: Trump made a big deal of saying "I bought this myself" when he brought a fast-food buffet in for the college boys. Trump Hotel DC (where all having business with the government are required to stay) is right down the street; couldn't he have called down there and bought some REAL food with his "own" money to feed the kids?

Go pull up the financing section of the ACA passed by the democratic congress and signed by Obama. That same one Pelosi said they had to pass so everyone could know what was in it. They were not separate tax increases but part of the ACA legislation.

They were not separate tax increases but part of the ACA legislation.